Collection Highlights
Siamese Twins
Date:
1836
Object Number:
LIB.SY.1836.55
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Sioux and Ojibbeway Pipes
Object Number:
1872.23.207
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 )
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at upper center in black ink over graphite: "Pl. 207. / Sioux and Ojibbeway Pipes."; pipes numbered from upper left to lower right in graphite: 19 to 34
Description:
Ethnography. Studies of Native Americans: Catlin's reproduction of the carving and construction of Native American pipes; sixteen pipe bowls carved into human faces, an eagle head, dogs, mythological beasts with human bodies and animal heads and sometimes paws or tails, reclining human figures
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.
