“These two Rees which you have guns, had been fighting themself/ and so they got their guns to kill each other the Chiefs going to/ make their boys stop./ Karechis” (Artist’s inscription, verso)

“According to the text written by the artist, this drawing depicts two chiefs settling a dispute. Certainly the two larger figures represent chiefs. In the traditional manner, the artist has rendered the most important figures larger than the rest. He has also represented them dressed in their finest: large robes with quilled or beaded blanket strips and feathers, eagle-wing fan, and elaborate coiffures. The very close attention to detail and the manner in which specific details are handled (eyes, ears, feathers) in both this drawing and in Nº20 have led to the identification of Karechis (the artist who signed this drawing) and Kauranarch (the artist of Nº20) as one and the same person.” (p.35)

William S. Wierzbowski and Helen M. Mangelsdorf in Images of a Vanished Life: Plains Indian Drawing from the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1985.