Collection Highlights
Punch bowl: Landing of Lafayette
Date:
1840-1850
Object Number:
1910.24
Medium:
Earthenware
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Green Corn Dance (Minatarree)
Object Number:
1872.23.159
Date:
1866-68
Medium:
Graphite and black ink on prepared card
Dimensions:
Overall: 18 3/8 x 24 1/8 in. ( 46.7 x 61.3 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right inside image in black ink: "Geo. Catlin"; inscribed at upper center outside image in black ink over graphite: "Pl. 159. / Green Corn Dance. (Minatarree)"
Description:
Ethnography. Studies of Native Americans: around a central tripod of branches hung with corn cobs over bowls full of corn, long haired men dance holding cornstalks and hand rattles.
Gallery Label:
When the green corn (maize) is old enough to eat, the first kettlefull is scrificed to the Great Spirit
Credit Line:
Purchased by the Society
Provenance:
The artist's collection; Francis Putnam Catlin, the artist's brother, serving as agent to George Henry Moore, acting on behalf of N-YHS
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
