Remington Catalogue
Blackfoot War Club
Alternate Title: Blackfoot Case-tate or War Club - Coup Stick
Date: 1889
Medium: pen and ink on paper
Catalogue Number: 00588
Credit Line: Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico
Dimensions: 8-1/4 x 10-1/4" (21 x 26 cm)
Illustration: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha, 1891, p. 178, line engraving.
Inscription: ur: No 8; ll: Hiawatha Remington--; lr: Blackfoot case-'tate'--or war club.--/coup stick.--
Illustration Inscription: Unsigned
Provenance: (Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, NY); present owner.
Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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Card, Helen L. "Frederic Remington, 1861-1909: Artist Historian of the Old West." Scrapbooks of Remington illustrations, compiled c. 1944. Vol. 1-5. The Metropolitan Musem of Art, New York, New York.
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The Magazine Antiques, vol. 102 (July 1972), p. 29.
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The information presented here is based on the Catalogue Raisonné edited by Peter Hassrick in 2016 and was accurate to the best of our knowledge at that time.