Collection Highlights
Napoleon's Authorization for the Sale of the Louisiana Territory
Date:
April 24, 1803
Object Number:
MSS.Y1803
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Three Iroquois: Atotárho Protected by Black Snakes, Flanked by Deganawida(?) Offering Wampum and Hiawatha(?)
Object Number:
X.520[dup]
Date:
c. 1827
Medium:
Watercolor, black and brown ink, and brown gouache over graphite on beige paper, laid on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 3/16 x 16 3/4 in. (38.6 x 42.5 cm)
Marks:
Inscribed at upper left in brown ink: "No. 2."
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at upper left in brown ink: "No. 2."
Description:
Iroquois folkart termed 'picture writing'
Bibliography:
Related to Cusick's 1827 booklet: David Cusick's Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations (Tuscarora Village : Lewiston, Niagara, co. 1828, c1826; Lockport, N. Y. : Conley & Lathrop, printers)
Kasprycki, Sylvia S., and Feest, Christian, trans. "On the Trails of the Iroquois." Berlin: Nicolai, 2013.
Credit Line:
Gift of Lansing Thurber
Provenance:
John Beechtree, Oneida Castle,N.Y., 1845; Lansing Thurber, Utica, N.Y., 1845-49
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
