Comanche Indians Chasing Buffalo
1846-1848
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 50.8 × 69.2 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-135144
“There are, by a fair calculation, more than 300,000 Indians, who are now subsisted on the flesh of the buffaloes, and by those animals supplied with all the luxuries of life which they desire, as they know of none others. The great variety of uses to which they convert the body and other parts of that animal, are almost incredible to the person who has not actually dwelt amongst these people, an…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Registry history
- 1846-1848 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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