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Thouhama or Sweet-Grass, an Onondaga Chief's Wife at Grand River, Upper Canada

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Date:

Nov. 5, 1846

Reference:

R9266

Type of material:

Art

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Item ID number:

2838073

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Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana at the National Archives of Canada

Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2002 Acquisition

Thouhama or Sweet-Grass, an Onondaga Chief's Wife at Grand River, Upper Canada
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

Nov. 5, 1846

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour : watercolour over graphite on wove paper
Support 24.600 x 16.000 cm

Language of material:

no language

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A portrait taken of a Tuscorara chief's wife on the Grand River, Upper Canada, Preservation copy photographs, both b&w and colour transparency, are held in the Loans and Exhibitions area of Preservation Branch.

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Artist: Lane, Henry Bowyer 1817/1818-1878

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Alpha-numeric note:

Sotheby's inventory no. W308

Custodial history:

This watercolour and other sketches by Lane had remained with his brother's family until they were sold in 1977 at Christie's, Melbourne. That sale was the probable source from which Winkworth obtained the work.

Availability of other formats note:

colour transparency available

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition Title: The River: Grand! Curator: Allan MacKay, Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario; 2004.09.12-2004.11.14

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: inscribed, in ink, recto, l.c.: THOUHAMA OR SWEET-GRASS.; verso, in ink: Thouhama or Sweet-Grass/an Onondaga Chiefs' Squaw./H.B. Lane fecit-/Grand River. Tuscorara.-Novr. 5th. 1846-; recto of backing, in ink, u.c.: anOnondaga's Chief's Squaw.; l.l.: H.B. Lane delt. 1846; vers of backing, which is an album sheet: List of Indian Tribes assembled / at the Onondaga Council House, Grand/River Upper Canada - Novr. 4th. 1846 - //Upper Mohawks / Lower Do./ Tuscuroras. / Clearsby Onondagas/Bearfeet Do./Delawares. / Senecas- Kimchtagas./Bay of Quinte Mohawks/ Nekarentares Senecas / Oneida Josephs / Peter Green's Aughaageis / Upper Cayugas / Lower Do. / Joseph's Aughaugas / Brant Family / Tutalis / St. Regis / Canada Family / Nautichokes (old)/ Young Do./Matures/Kayentagowah
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Ontario

Indian

Portraits
Source:

Private

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00300
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
No restriction on access or on use for publication or reproduction.

Item no. assigned by LAC [R9266] 300

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00300] C-149720

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, ACC. R9266-300 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: Expired

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