Collection Highlights
Cake board
Date:
1825-1835
Object Number:
1937.1562
Medium:
Wood (possibly mahogany)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Powder Horn: Sioux Indian, with Bullet Pouch and Strap (I-21), with a Printed Vignette Portrait of Sitting Bull
Object Number:
1907.36.405
Date:
1890
Medium:
Gouache, watercolor, brown and black ink and wash, collage, and graphite, with selective glazing on beige paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 x 11 in. ( 38.1 x 27.9 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed bottom right: Copied from the / original Dec.30, 1890 by Rufus A. Grider of / Canajoharie N.Y.
Inscriptions:
Inscribed and signed at lower right in gray ink: "A SIOUX / POWDER HORN & BULLET / POUCH...Copied from the / Original Dec. 30. 1890 by Rufus A. Grider of / Canajoharie N.Y.", with a brief history of the horn
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
