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ANOTHER PROPERTY
A UTE PICTORIAL PAINTED MUSLIN
Details
A UTE PICTORIAL PAINTED MUSLIN
drawn in pencil and painted in red, green, mustard, brown, and black watercolors, depicting two central warriors with joined hands, one wearing a horned headdress, the other in an eagle-feathered war bonnet, flanked by two opposing rows of warriors on horseback, the men carrying rifles, lances, bows and arrows, and American flags, the horses with saddleblankets, bound tails and painted symbols, a perched eagle with outstretched wings and a rattlesnake in the foreground
Dimensions: 72 x 36¼ in. (183 x 92 cm.)
drawn in pencil and painted in red, green, mustard, brown, and black watercolors, depicting two central warriors with joined hands, one wearing a horned headdress, the other in an eagle-feathered war bonnet, flanked by two opposing rows of warriors on horseback, the men carrying rifles, lances, bows and arrows, and American flags, the horses with saddleblankets, bound tails and painted symbols, a perched eagle with outstretched wings and a rattlesnake in the foreground
Dimensions: 72 x 36¼ in. (183 x 92 cm.)
Provenance
Reportedly collected by Major Howell Plummer Myton, who was appointed to the Indian Commission for Utah by President McKinley in 1897, and who subsequently became a U.S. Indian agent on the Uintah (Ute) Indian Reservation in White Rocks, Utah.