Unidentified Man

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Artist

Karl Bodmer

Birth and death dates

1809 - 1893

Artist Nationality

Swiss

Title

Unidentified Man

Date

September 3, 1833

Dimensions

12 9/16 × 10 in. (31.9 × 25.4 cm)

Medium

Watercolor and graphite on paper

Institution

Joslyn Art Museum

Credit Line

Gift of the Enron Art Foundation

Accession Number

1986.49.299

Rights (i.e. copyright information)

Joslyn Art Museum

Photographer credit

Photograph © Bruce M. White, 2019

Commentary

According to the diaries, Bodmer made a drawing of a Piegan medicine man on September 3. Both of these two sketches are inscribed "Piegan medicine man," and either could be the drawing done that day. However, there is also some resemblance between these portrayals and that of Niätóhsä, the Kainai medicine man in Image 1986.49.282.A. This is particularly true of Image 1986.49.295 and Image 1986.49.282.A, where the similarity of facial paint and features is marked enough to suggest that the inscription on the former may be incorrect and that both are renderings of the same Kainai individual.

References in Journal

September 3, 1833

Labels:

genre, portrait

Approximate Depicted Location:

Fort McKenzie, Montana