Kee-O-Kuck or The Watching Fox : The present Chief of the Sauk tribe and Successor to Black Hawk / Painted by J.O. Lewis at the great treaty of Prairie du Chien 1825.
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- Kee-O-Kuck or The Watching Fox : The present Chief of the Sauk tribe and Successor to Black Hawk / Painted by J.O. Lewis at the great treaty of Prairie du Chien 1825.
- Date
- [between 1835 and 1836]
- Notes
- Full-length portrait of Kee-O-Kuck (variant spelling Keokuk) bare-chested holding a large spear and wearing a ceremonial dance bustle, trade silver armbands, a peace medal that appears to bear the likeness of Andrew Jackson, a headdress made of dyed red feathers, red face paint around his eyes, and white body paint in the form of stripes, bands and handprints.
- Names and Subjects
- Jackson, Andrew,--1767-1845--Portraits.
- Keokuk--(Sauk chief),--1780?-1848.
- Indians of North America--Portraits.
- Indians of North America--Treaties.
- Indians of North America--Clothing.
- Sauk Indians (Algonquian)--Portraits.
- Body painting--1820-1830.
- Headdresses--1820-1830.
- Medals--1820-1830.
- Spears--1820-1830.
- Tribal chiefs--Wisconsin--Prairie du Chien--1820-1830.
- Prints shelf.
- Lehman & Duval Lithrs.,--lithographer.
- The aboriginal port-folio: a collection of portraits of the most celebrated chiefs of the North American Indians.
- United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- ID
- 6771
- Barcode
- B8384076
- Physical Description
- 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored ; sheet 43.7 x 28 cm
- Repository
- William L. Clements Library
- Date Added/Updated
- 2018-11-06 16:36:18
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- Collection
- William L. Clements Library Image Bank
- Image Size
- 7616 x 10580
- File Size
- 4 MB
- Record
- 6771
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"Kee-O-Kuck or The Watching Fox : The present Chief of the Sauk tribe and Successor to Black Hawk / Painted by J.O. Lewis at the great treaty of Prairie du Chien 1825.". https://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wcl1ic/x-6771/wcl006837. In the digital collection William L. Clements Library Image Bank. William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. August 31, 2024.