The Kiowa Five

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Object Details

Creator: Jacobson, Oscar Brousse, 1882-1966
Collection Creator: Jacobson, Oscar Brousse, 1882-1966; Matzene, Richard Gordon

Collection Citation: Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Oscar B. Jacobson photographs of Native Artists, NMAI.AC.318; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.

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Scope and Contents: Photograph of the five male Kiowa artists known as the Kiowa Five. Kiowa female artist Lois Smoky (not pictured here) was also a member of this group, alternatively known as the Kiowa Six. From left to right are Stephen Mopope, Spencer Asah, Jack Hokeah, Monroe Tsatoke, and James Auchiah. Photographed by Oscar B. Jacobson in his garden in Norman, Oklahoma, circa 1929.

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