The Boy-Bear’s Cub-Brothers, Growing Too Big, Were Sent, Wearing Sacred Wampum Back to Their Natural Home, from the series Legends of the Lenape Indians

Robert Riggs, The Boy-Bear's Cub-Brothers, Growing Too Big, Were Sent, Wearing Sacred Wampum Back to Their Natural Home, from the series Legends of the Lenape Indians, ca. 1966, graphite and scratchwork on prepared paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Philip Desind, 1986.91.4
Robert Riggs, The Boy-Bear's Cub-Brothers, Growing Too Big, Were Sent, Wearing Sacred Wampum Back to Their Natural Home, from the series Legends of the Lenape Indians, ca. 1966, graphite and scratchwork on prepared paperboard, sheet: 21 7⁄8 x 27 5⁄8 in. (55.6 x 70.3 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Philip Desind, 1986.91.4

Artwork Details

Title
The Boy-Bear’s Cub-Brothers, Growing Too Big, Were Sent, Wearing Sacred Wampum Back to Their Natural Home, from the series Legends of the Lenape Indians
Artist
Date
ca. 1966
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
sheet: 21 7⁄8 x 27 5⁄8 in. (55.6 x 70.3 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Philip Desind
Mediums
Mediums Description
graphite and scratchwork on prepared paperboard
Classifications
Subjects
  • Indian — Lenape
  • Mythology — other — American Indian
  • Figure group — male
Object Number
1986.91.4
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1986.91.4

Works by this artist (1 item)

Frances Lee Turner, Bulloch Hall, 1934, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1965.18.47
Bulloch Hall
Artist
Date1934
oil on canvas
Not on view