About the Artwork
Courting Scene
ca. 1890
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Native American
Native american
White buffalo
Ink and watercolor on paper
Overall: 8 1/4 × 8 1/2 inches (21 × 21.6 cm)
Drawings
Indigenous Americas
Gift of Megan Parry and Lesley Brill
1990.279
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Provenance
collected by Elvira Platt, missionary, possibly at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School [active 1879-1918, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA], which was attended by White Buffalo. Megan Parry and Lesley Brill (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1990-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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White Buffalo, Courting Scene, ca. 1890, ink and watercolor on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Megan Parry and Lesley Brill, 1990.279.
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