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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Title: 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]
Creator: Lewis, James Otto, 1799-1858, artist.
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.; Indigenous peoples--North America--Portraits.; Indigenous peoples--North America--Treaties.; Indigenous peoples--Clothing--North America.; Sauk (North American people)--Portraits.; 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.
Genre: Lithographs Hand-colored 1830-1840.
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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Full citation: "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. July 10, 2025.