Sweet Medicine: Council Grounds of the Great Treaty at Horse Creek, Nebraska

Drex Brooks, Sweet Medicine: Council Grounds of the Great Treaty at Horse Creek, Nebraska, 1987, printed 1989, toned gelatin silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Consolidated Natural Gas Company Foundation, 1991.21.1, © 1989, Drex Brooks
Drex Brooks, Sweet Medicine: Council Grounds of the Great Treaty at Horse Creek, Nebraska, 1987, printed 1989, toned gelatin silver print, sheet: 20 x 22 7⁄8 in. (50.8 x 58.1 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Consolidated Natural Gas Company Foundation, 1991.21.1, © 1989, Drex Brooks

Artwork Details

Title
Sweet Medicine: Council Grounds of the Great Treaty at Horse Creek, Nebraska
Artist
Date
1987, printed 1989
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
sheet: 20 x 22 7⁄8 in. (50.8 x 58.1 cm.)
Copyright
© 1989, Drex Brooks
Credit Line
Gift of the Consolidated Natural Gas Company Foundation
Mediums Description
toned gelatin silver print
Classifications
Subjects
  • Allegory — other — defeat
  • History — United States — Great Treaty at Horse Creek, NE
  • Indian — Lakota
  • Landscape — tree — oak tree
  • Landscape — Nebraska
  • Disaster — fire
Object Number
1991.21.1
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1991.21.1

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