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
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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
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