Kiowa Warrior with Flag
Ohettoint Drawing Book
Kiowa
Central Plains
ca. 1876
recto/verso
ink, graphite and coloured pencil on paper
height: 8 ⅝"
width: 11 ⅜"
Inventory # CP4468-3
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PROVENANCE
Gifted by Richard Henry Pratt (1840-1924), commander at Fort Marion, to Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822-1901) on September 25, 1876
Evangeline Marrs Simpson Whipple (1857-1930)
Roy Henry Robinson, Chicago, IL, acquired from the estate of the above in 1933
by descent in the family
RELATED EXAMPLE
A sketchbook attributed to Ohettoint is in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN, No. 98.151.2 - See: https://collections.artsmia.org/art/5599/book-of-drawings-attributed-to-ohet-toint
For a detailed history of the artist, see "Ohettoint, the Police Officer" in Karen Daniels Petersen, Plains Indian Art from Fort Marion, 1971, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pgs. 161-170