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Shorty White-Grass A-PO-TO-YE-SEE

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Artist
Wilfred Langdon Kihn (1898 – 1957, American)
Date
1924
Medium
pastel on paper
Catalogue Number
KiW.03.02
Description
A very brightly coloured pastel drawing. The portrait of the man dominates almost the entire picture. A dark blue background behind his head, the face is drawin in good detail, black braids to the front. A red undershirt, yellow vest with white/red/purple diamond designs over shoulders. A necklace …
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Artist
Wilfred Langdon Kihn (1898 – 1957, American)
Title
Shorty White-Grass A-PO-TO-YE-SEE
Date
1924
Medium
pastel on paper
Dimensions
49.8 x 38.0 cm
Description
A very brightly coloured pastel drawing. The portrait of the man dominates almost the entire picture. A dark blue background behind his head, the face is drawin in good detail, black braids to the front. A red undershirt, yellow vest with white/red/purple diamond designs over shoulders. A necklace of black-tipped weasel tails and long, black horse tails. He is wearing a brown (buckskin ?) shirt. On the back of the heavy card backing: Shorty White-Grass A-PO-TO-YE-SEE Blackfeet Tribe of Browning Mont. in blue; in black: #54.
Subject
portrait, male
Indigenous
Credit
Gift of Banff Centre Brewster Donation, Banff, 1986
Catalogue Number
KiW.03.02
Images
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Artist
Nicholas Raffael de Grandmaison (1892 – 1978, Canadian)
Date
c. 1927
Medium
pastel on paper
Catalogue Number
DgN.03.02
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Artist
Nicholas Raffael de Grandmaison (1892 – 1978, Canadian)
Title
Untitled
Date
c. 1927
Medium
pastel on paper
Dimensions
27.7 x 40.0 cm
Subject
portrait
male
Indigenous
Credit
Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1976
Catalogue Number
DgN.03.02
Images
Less detail
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.
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