Ceremonial Sweat Tipi
Record ID: 586
Date: ca. 1904; [1890]
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 12 x 16 3/4 in.
Signature / Inscription: LL: J.H.SHARP. On verso: Ceremonial Sweat Tepee - for purification & Prayer to the skull for return of the buffalo: early 1890s. On lower edge of canvas: illegible
Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
Accession Number: 0136.39
Provenance: The artist; [?]; Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Tulsa, OK; present owner by gift, 1964
Related
Twilight Teepee (ca. 1904)
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN
Created concurrently with Peter Hassrick's 2018 Whitney West publication The Life & Art of Joseph Henry Sharp, this online catalogue highlights more than 700 works by J.H. Sharp that are held in public collections.
