2023.208: [Wa-kawn] (The Snake), Winnebago Delegate

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2023.208

People

Henry Inman, American (Utica, NY 1801 - 1846 New York, NY)

Title

[Wa-kawn] (The Snake), Winnebago Delegate

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1832-1834

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/332998

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

76.2 x 62.9 cm (30 x 24 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Mark Hollingsworth and Edmund I. Tileston (Hollingsworth and Tileston Paper Company); to Edmund P. Tileston and Amor Hollingsworth; gift of their heirs to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 1882, transfer; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, gift of the heirs of E. P. Tileston and Amor Hollingsworth, 1882

Accession Year

2023

Object Number

2023.208

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Thomas Loraine McKenney and James Hall, Catalogue of One Hundred and Seventeen Indian Portraits: representing eighteen different tribes, accompanied by a few brief remarks on the character &c. of most of them (Philadelphia, 1836), p. 20
• Thomas Loraine McKenney and James Hall, History of the Indian Tribes of North America : with biographical sketches and anecdotes of the principal chiefs, Vol. II, F. W. Greenough (Philadelphia, 1838), pp. 173-176, ill. of lithograph
• William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 42
• James David Horan, The McKenney-Hall portrait gallery of American Indians, Crown Publishers Inc. (New York, 1972), pp. 284-285, ill. of lithograph
• A Festival of Western American Art at Hirschl and Adler, October 12-November 17, 1984, auct. cat., Hirschl & Adler Galleries (New York, 1984), p. 18, no. 2-54
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 29, 296, cat. 256, ill.
• Cristina Morilla, "Conservation as Cultural Practice: The Portrait Collection of Indigenous Delegates by Henry Inman", Studies in Conservation (March 21, 2024), passim

Exhibition History

• One Hundred and Seventeen Indian Portraits, Masonic Hall, Philadelphia, 04/01/1836 - 05/31/1836; [Unknown Venue, New York], 07/01/1836 - 07/31/1836; [Unknown venue, Boston], 08/01/1836 - 08/31/1836; Cosmorama Rooms, London, London, 07/01/1845 - 08/31/1845

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