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Photo Credit: photo: M. Cook
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Mary Snigaroff, Aleut Indian Woman
194220th century
305 x 221 mm (12 x 8.7 in.)
William Langdon Kihn, American, (1898–1957)
Object Type:
drawing
Medium and Support:
Crayon drawing on wove drawing paper
Marks:
Signed in crayon, lower right: “W. Langdon Kihn 7/3/42”; inscribed, lower left: “Mary Snigaroff, Aleut Indian Woman”; inscribed on verso of original mount: “An Aleutian Islander / Atka Is Alaska. Mary Snigaroff / One of the finest basketweavers among Aleuts.”
Bibliography:
The Edward Lyman Bill Collection of Indian Portraits and Landscapes of the Western United States by W. Langdon Kihn [catalog for exhibition June 20 – July 6, 1957] (Old Lyme, CT: Florence Griswold House, 1957), cat. no. 38.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Bill family, 1959
Accession Number:
1959.46.38
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- Native Alaskans
- portraits - Representations of real individuals that are intended to capture a known or supposed likeness; for representations of fictional or mythological characters, use "figures (representations)." [March 1993 lead-in term added. April 1991 descriptor m
Dimensions
- sheet Dimensions: 305 x 221 mm (12 x 8.7 in.)
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Credit Caption
William Langdon Kihn, American, (1898–1957) . Mary Snigaroff, Aleut Indian Woman, 1942. Crayon drawing on wove drawing paper. sheet : 305 x 221 mm (12 x 8.7 in.). DAC accession number 1959.46.38. Gift of the Bill family, 1959. (photo: M. Cook) .
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