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