Collection Highlights
The Rapalje Children
1768
1946.201
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Drawings
Bear Hunt (K'nisteneux)
Title
Bear Hunt (K'nisteneux)
Date
1866-68
Medium
Graphite and black ink on prepared card
Dimensions
Overall: 18 3/8 x 24 1/8 in. ( 46.7 x 61.3 cm )
Description
Ethnography. Studies of Native Americans: two long haired Kristeneaux men with a spear and tomahawk fight two bears from horseback while the bears try to maul the horses
Credit Line
Purchased by the Society
Object Number
1872.23.147
Inscriptions
Signed at lower right inside image in black ink: "Geo. Catlin"; inscribed at upper center outside image in black ink over graphite: "Pl. 147. / Bear Hunt. (K'nisteneux)"
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.
