"In the Beginning" by Fred Olds. From postcard from the Oklahoma Territorial Museum.

Fine, bare wanderings

Betty June Starr Whelan Cherokee Collection, MS-188
MS188-03-13: Historic Indian Materials · Page 2.13
Physical location
Betty June Starr Whelan Cherokee Collection, MS-188
MS188-03-13: Historic Indian Materials
Page 2.13
Material type
Newspaper Clipping (Newspaper / Clipping)
Date
NA
Description
Newspaper article about the attempt by western artists in the U.S. to capture the "disappearing species" of the American Indain by collecting likenesses of them for historic preservation purposes. Article names several artists of this movement and the exhibition "Artists of the American West" at the Roger Guffey Gallery at the Federal Reserve Bank.
Author or creator
Peter von Ziegesar
Publication or source
NA
Subjects and names
James Audubon, Chief Wi-Jun-Jon, Assiniboines, Chief Mah To Toh Pa, Mandans, Tuko-See-Mathia, Seminoles, Tai-O-Mah, Mesquakies, Not-Chi-Mi-Ne, Iowas, Roger Guffey Gallery, George Catlin, Charles Bird King, Paul Frenzeny, Jules Tavernier, James Otto Lewis, Sun-a-Get, Potawatomi

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