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Photo Credit: photo: M. Cook
Bookmark (persistent url): https://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu/objects-1/info/7935
Nick Prokopeoff, Aleut Indian, Born Attu Island, Alaska, 1873
194220th century
William Langdon Kihn, American, (1898–1957)
Object Type:
drawing
Medium and Support:
Graphite and conte pencil drawing on wove paper
Marks:
Signed in conte, lower right W. Langdon Kihn 7/4/42; inscribed beneath image: Nick Prokopeoff/ Aleut Indian/ Born Attu Is. Alaska 1873
Marks:
Watermark:
No watermark
Provenance / Collectors' Marks:
Edward Lyman Bill and Raymond Bill
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. 36.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Bill family, 1959
Accession Number:
1959.46.36
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This object has the following keywords:
- Alaska - TGN 7006450
- Native Alaskans
- Northwestern United States - TGN 4011498 (general region): Typically refers to the states of Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. It may also include some of northern California.
- 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
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Credit Caption
William Langdon Kihn, American, (1898–1957) . Nick Prokopeoff, Aleut Indian, Born Attu Island, Alaska, 1873, 1942. Graphite and conte pencil drawing on wove paper. : mm (in.). DAC accession number 1959.46.36. Gift of the Bill family, 1959. (photo: M. Cook) .