Chippewa Chief Peechekir Also Called Buffalo A Charcoal Head Study By Charles Bird King For A

by Charles Bird King

$18,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A rare Charles Bird King study of a Chippewa Chief. Peechekir or Peechekor, Buffalo was a solid, straight formed Indian, Colonel McKenney recalled many years after meeting the Chippewa Ojibwa, Anishinabe chief at a treaty ceremony in the Michigan Territory circa 1825-27. According to Horan, Charles Bird King copied this head from a James Otto Lewis painting, but no evidence survives to prove it. It was probably lost, as were many Lewis paintings and the King oil of

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