Ohettoint and Wife

Inscribed "Kiowa and Wife" and "Saul" by Captain Richard Henry Pratt

PROVENANCE

Gifted by Richard Henry Pratt (1840-1924), commander at Fort Marion, St. Augustine, FL, to Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822-1901) on July 31, 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 EXAMPLES

Sketchbooks attributed to Nokkoist (Bear's Heart) and Ohettoint are in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN, No. 98.151.1 and No. 98.151.2 - See: https://collections.artsmia.org/art/5598/book-of-drawings-bears-heart and https://collections.artsmia.org/art/5599/book-of-drawings-attributed-to-ohet-toint

For detailed histories of the two artists, see "Bear's Heart, The Color-bearer" in Karen Daniels Petersen, Plains Indian Art from Fort Marion, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971, pgs. 97-109; and "Ohettoint, the Police Officer", pgs. 161-170