Discovery Dance, Sac and Fox
1835-1837
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 49.5 × 69.9 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-135948
“The Discovery Dance has been given here, amongst various others, and pleased the bystanders very much; it was exceedingly droll and picturesque, and acted out with a great deal of pantomimic effect---without music, or any other noise than the patting of their feet, which all came simultaneously on the ground, in perfect time, whilst they were dancing forward two or four at a time, in a skulking …
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Registry history
- 1835-1837 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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