Collection Highlights
The Puritan
1899
1946.253
Dark brown/ black patinated bronze
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Luce Center
An Ojibbeway Village
Title
An Ojibbeway Village
Date
1866-68
Medium
Graphite and black ink on card
Dimensions
Overall: 18 3/8 x 24 1/8 in. ( 46.7 x 61.3 cm )
Description
Ethnography. Studies of Native Americans: a scene of round topped skin huts, one with the frame visible as it is being assembled, around a circle of tribe members, with birch bark canoes on the side
Credit Line
Purchased by the Society
Object Number
1872.23.119
Marks
inscriptions: Signed
Inscriptions
Signed at right inside image in black ink: "Geo. Catlin"; inscribed at upper center outside image in black ink over graphite: "Pl. 119. / Ojibbeway Village"
Provenance
The artist's collection; Francis Putnam Catlin, the artist's brother, serving as agent to George Henry Moore, acting on behalf of N-YHS
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
