Remington Catalogue
Prehistoric Indian Axe, Walrus Tusk, and Flint Arrow-Head
Date: 1889
Medium: pen and ink on paper
Catalogue Number: 00810
Credit Line: Owner and location unknown
Dimensions: 12-1/2 x 7-3/4″ (31.75 x 19.69 cm)
Illustration: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha, 1891, p. 39, line engraving.
Inscription: ul: Hiathwa.; uc: 205; across bottom: prehistoric Indian axe-Lavalle University Col. Quebec.–/walrus tusk & arrow head flint.
Illustration Inscription: Unsigned
Provenance: Tax sale, Albany, New York – consignor Edward Duer; (Kennedy Galleries
Inc., New York, New York); (Sotheby’s, New York, New York, August 1993); 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 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.