Photography by Amon Carter Museum of American Art

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Shaumonekusse, Oto Half Chief (Husband of Eagle of Delight)

Artist Charles Bird King (1785 - 1862)

Dateca. 1822

MediumOil on panel

Dimensions18 x 14 1/2 in. (45.7 x 36.8 cm)
Framed: 23 1/2 in. × 20 1/4 in. × 2 in.

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2010.87

Signedverso, on panel: Ottoe Half Chief / Husband of Eagle of Delight / by C.B. King / no. 2

Accession number 2010.87

On View

On view

Provenance(James Graham & Sons, New York, NY); Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge [1882-1973], Madison, NJ; to Estate of Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, 1973; to (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, NY), October 31, 1975, lot 65 (as Shamuonekusse, "Prairie Wolf," An Oto Chief); (Schweitzer Gallery, New York, NY); (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY); to Pierre Bergé [b. 1930], Pierre Hotel, New York, NY, 1978; to (Sotheby's, New York, NY) December 1, 2004, lot 137; purchased by a private foundation for Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2004
Label TextOto leader Shaumonekusse wears a bisonhorn headdress and bear-claw necklace, indicating his skill as a hunter. He also wears a presidential “peace medal”—a calculated diplomatic gift from United States government officials who wanted to increase white settlement on tribal lands.

Shaumonekusse, líder del pueblo Oto, usa un tocado con cuernos de bisonte y un collar confeccionado con garras de oso, lo cual indica que era un hábil cazador. Además, usa una “medalla de la paz” presidencial, un obsequio diplomático calculado de los oficiales de gobierno de los Estados Unidos que deseaban aumentar el asentamiento de la raza blanca en tierras tribales.