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Drawing - Kiowa After a Mexican
Drawing - Kiowa After a Mexican
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Drawing - Kiowa After a Mexican

Datec. 1870
DimensionsOverall: 9 × 13 in. (22.9 × 33 cm)
Object numberT0390
Credit LineGift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw
Label TextThis horse likely belonged to an army post or settler’s farm and then became a Kiowa war horse. The brand marks on the shoulder and haunches of the horse reveals that it changed ownership as Indians did not brand their horses.


ProvenanceMalcolm Grimmer, Santa Fe, New Mexico
BibliographyVincent, Gilbert et al. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2000, p.124.

Morning Star Gallery/Parco ca. 1992, back inside cover.

Fognell, Eva and Alexander Brier Marr, eds. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum, 2nd ed. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2016, p. 130.
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