Painting : 2016.71.29

Title:

RAGGED ROBE, GROS VENTRE

Artist:

Scheuerle, Joe (1873-1948)

Medium:

Watercolor/Gouache

Date:

1914

Source:

Nippert Collection of Joseph Scheuerle Portraits, donated by Alfred K., Jr. and Kathye H. Nippert

Object ID:

2016.71.29

Description:

Scheuerle noted, "RAGGED ROBE - ATSINA-OF ARA-PAHO STOCK - also called Old Medicine Man of the Gros Ventre - Painted at Fort Belknap Res. Mont. 1914 - He's a Medicine Man and carries a wand decorated with an old scalp, taken long ago - also a good Bear Claw necklace - I tried to buy from him - but couldn't - it was so darn hot during my stay there - all of men discarded most of their clothes, and sat around nearly naked, all but myself - Musquitos [sic] were bad, at the agency, so moved up to Lodge Pole, sub agency, 40 miles south in the hills, the Little Rockys, in time for a 4th of July celebration, nice country."

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Painting, Ragged Robe, Gros Ventre, 2016.71.29 (front)

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