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Captain Jack or Grizzly Bear Paw, medicine man of Kisbyyoks, British Columbia.
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Henry Wellcome commissioned the artist W. Langdon Kihn to make portrait drawings of certain native American people wearing their traditional costume. To make the portraits Kihn used a special kind of patent pastel. Kihn's works in the Wellcome Library include this portrait of Captain Jack, a medicine man from British Columbia, Canada, wearing a magnificent headdress made from bear's claws. The portrait forms a pair with a portrait of Captain Jack's wife, Noch Slak.
Title: Captain Jack or Grizzly Bear Paw, medicine man of Kisbyyoks, British Columbia.
Description:
Henry Wellcome commissioned the artist W.
Langdon Kihn to make portrait drawings of certain native American people wearing their traditional costume.
To make the portraits Kihn used a special kind of patent pastel.
Kihn's works in the Wellcome Library include this portrait of Captain Jack, a medicine man from British Columbia, Canada, wearing a magnificent headdress made from bear's claws.
The portrait forms a pair with a portrait of Captain Jack's wife, Noch Slak.
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