Drawing Portrait of Few Tails
- Date created
- circa 1880
- Culture/People
- Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux)
- Artist/Maker
- Red Dog (Shon-Kan-Lou-Tah/Shun-ka-lu-ta/Scarlet Dog), Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux), ca. 1848-1884; annotated by Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy (V. T. McGillycuddy/Valentine Trant McGillycuddy), Non-Indian, 1849-1939
- Collector
- Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy (V. T. McGillycuddy/Valentine Trant McGillycuddy), Non-Indian, 1849-1939
- Previous owner
- General William Tecumseh Sherman, Non-Indian, 1820-1891
- P. Tecumseh Sherman (Philemon Tecumseh Sherman), Non-Indian, 1867-1941
- Eleanor Sherman Fitch, Non-Indian, 1876-1959
- Donor
- Eleanor Sherman Fitch, Non-Indian, 1876-1959
- Collection History
- Collected and annotated by Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy (1849-1939) while he was the Indian Agent on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation between 1879 and 1886; sent by Valentine McGillycuddy to General William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) at the artist's request in 1884; inherited by General Sherman's son Philemon Tecumseh Sherman (1867-1941) and subsequently by General Sherman's granddaughter, Eleanor Sherman Fitch (1876-1959); donated to MAI by Eleanor Sherman Fitch in 1943.
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- Place
- Pine Ridge Reservation; Jackson County, Oglala Lakota County; South Dakota; USA
- See related items
- Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux)
- Painting/Drawing/Print
- On View
- NMAI, New York, NY: Infinity of Nations, Plains & Plateau
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 20/6230
- Barcode
- 206230.000
- Object Type
- Painting/Drawing/Print
- Title
- Drawing Portrait of Few Tails
- Object Name
- Book of ledger drawings
- Media/Materials
- Paper, ink, graphite, crayon
- Techniques
- Drawn, painted
- Dimensions
- 13 x 19.5 x 12.7 cm
- Record ID
- NMAI_220312