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Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiah

John T. Bowen and Charles Bird King

Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiah

1837

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Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiah

1837

Physical Qualities Crayon lithograph with hand coloring, Sheet: 454 x 341 mm. (17 7/8 x 13 7/16 in.) Image: 335 x 220 mm. (13 3/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Eileen Higham in Memory of her Husband, John Higham
Object Number 2004.37
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2004; Eileen Higham, Baltimore.
Bowers, Shirley H. “Captured on Canvas: McKenney-Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America.” Florida Historical Quarterly. 1993. Vol. 71, No. 4, pp. 339-347.

Flanagan, John Theodore 1906. James Hall: Literary Pioneer of the Ohio Valley.
New York, N.Y.: Russell & Russell; 1971.

Flanagan, John Theodore 1906. James Hall: Literary Pioneer of the Ohio Valley.
New York, N.Y.: Russell & Russell; 1971.

Viola, Herman J. “Portraits, Presents, and Peace Medals: Thomas L. McKenney and the Indian Visitors to Washington.” American Scene. 1970 June 11.

Viola, Herman J. Thomas L. McKenney: Architect of America's Early Indian Policy, 1816-1830. Chicago, Illinois: Sage Books, 1974.

Wiet, John Phillip. “McKenney-Hall Prints from the History of the Indian Tribes of North America.” Imprint. 1980 Autumn; 5(2):12ff.

National Museum of History and Technology. Perfect likenesses : portraits for History of the Indian tribes of North America (1836-44), D.C. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1977]

Signed: one

Inscribed: RECTO: in matrix: LWRC: [ink stamp] "A.H."; "MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAH/ OR/ BLACK HAWK A SAUKIE BRAVE/ PUBLISHED BY F. W. GREENOUGH, PHILAD A/ Drawn Printed & Colored at I.T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment No 94 Walnut St./ Entered according to act of Congress in the Year 1838 by F. W. Greenough in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Penna."; VERSO: none.

Markings: Stamp, LR: "A.H." [possibly A.N. Hart]

Artist

John T. Bowen

2000–2000

American, born England, c. 1801-c. 1856
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Artist

Charles Bird King

1784–1861

American, 1785-1862
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