Spatial Whorl
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Object Details
- Culture/People
- Southern Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
- Artist/Maker
- Dick West (Wapah Nahyah/Wah-pah-nah-yah/Walter Richard West, Sr.), Southern Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne), 1912-1996
- Previous owner
- Dwight D. Saunders, Non-Indian, 1918-2006
- Donor
- Dwight D. Saunders, Non-Indian, 1918-2006
- Collection History
- Completed by the artist as part of his Master's thesis at the University of Oklahoma; given to Dwight D. Saunders (1918-2006, then an art professor at the University of Oklahoma and a family friend); donated to NMAI by Mr. Saunders in 2004.
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- Date created
- 1949-1950
- Catalog Number
- 26/5102
- Barcode
- 265102.000
- Object Type
- Painting/Drawing/Print
- Title
- Spatial Whorl
- Object Name
- Painting
- Media/Materials
- Canvas, oil paint
- Techniques
- Painted
- Dimensions
- 71.2 x 50.8 cm
- Place
- Oklahoma; USA
- See related items
- Southern Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
- Painting/Drawing/Print
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_281296
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws647741918-6bff-409e-a008-39db1ca73e3f
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