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Red Otter Comes to the Rescue

Made By Kiowa
Date1880
Dimensionsimage: 7 x 9 15/16 in. (17.8 x 25.2 cm)
Overall: 10 1/8 x 13 1/4 in. (25.7 x 33.7 cm)
Classification(s)
  • DRAWING
Credit LineGift of Merritt A. Boyle, grandson of General Merritt Barber, Class of 1857
Terms
  • Mexican
  • battle
  • Native American
  • horse
  • ledger
Object number53.7.2
Inscribedon mount, below image in ink: White Bear with a war party in Mexico is attacked by a party of Mexicans, who lasso him, and are/ dragging him away; when Red Otter comes to the rescue and puts a few arrows into the Mexicans, who/ drop White Bear and run off, and the Indians make their escape
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceGeneral Merritt Barber (Class of 1857); to Merritt A. Boyle (his grandson); to present collection, 1953
Exhibitions
Teaching events
Karen Merrill, HIST 372, f21
Christine DeLucia, ARTH 561, f21
Wendy Red Star visits, f21
Two Kiowas
Kiowa
1880
© The Saul Steinberg Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Saul Steinberg
ca. 1970-1980