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Nº35 Hunting Scene II

Ethnographic Notes

“This man shot deer/ with his dog the other/ deer shot and other/ deer try shot” (Artist’s inscription, verso)

“In this hunting scene, a mounted hunter chases down two deer, one of whom is already wounded. The hunter is accompanied by his dog. The drawing by Shirtaschnay (Nº28) is nearly identical. Shirtaschnay’s, however, is set in a landscape, or at least ground is indicated. Willis’s drawing, in contrast, keeps to the traditional convention of showing no ground line or landscape elements.” (p.47)

William S. Wierzbowski and Helen M. Mangelsdorf in Images of a Vanished Life: Plains Indian Drawing from the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1985.


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Drawings made in 1879 by students at the Hampton Institute, Virginia. Donated to the Pennsylvania Academy of ...

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Plate No: 12
Page No: 1982_X_152
Media: Pencil, ink, colored pencil on cream tagboard
Dimensions: 7 x 10 3/4 in.
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Credit line: Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
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