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Graphite and coloured pencil drawing of a warrior procession peaking out from behind a hill | Donald Ellis Gallery
Graphite and coloured pencil drawing of a distant buffalo herd in the landscape | Donald Ellis Gallery

Warrior Procession

Ohettoint, 1852-1934
Ohettoint Drawing Book
Kiowa
Central Plains

ca. 1876

recto/verso

graphite and coloured pencil on lined paper

height: 8 ⅝"
width: 11 ⅜"

Inventory # CP4468-2

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PROVENANCE

Gifted by Richard Henry Pratt (1840-1924), commander at Fort Marion, St. Augustine, FL, 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