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Nº40 Battle Scene

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“Hampton nomal School./ Nove 14 1879./ a long time he has been fight/ a great many soldiers/ in the Indian Territory/ and six year go now” (Artist’s inscription, verso)

“This drawing depicts a mounted Kiowa warrior (possibly the artist himself) lancing a United States soldier while being fired upon by others. The warrior wears his feathered bonnet, the sign of his warrior status, and carries his shield and lance; his horse's tail is bound up for battle. Although Zone Keuh had been in the East for a number of years at the time he did this drawing, he still followed many of the conventions of Plains Indian painting. The stacking of the soldiers one above the other to show depth is one such convention; another is simultaneously showing the discharge from the guns and the flying bullets (their speed indicated by their "tails").”(p.50)

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.


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Drawings made in 1879 by students at the Hampton Institute, Virginia. Donated to the Pennsylvania Academy of ...

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Plate No: 2
Page No: 1982_X_142
Media: Pencil, watercolor, colored pencil, crayon? on cream tagboard
Dimensions: 8 ¾ x 11 in.
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Credit line: Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
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