Object Details
- Collection History
- Commissioned and annotated by Colonel Richard Henry Pratt (1840-1924, US Army), who conducted educational experiments with Native prisoners at Fort Marion before going on to found the Carlisle Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania; sent to General William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) by Pratt to solicit support for Indian education efforts; inherited by Philemon Tecumseh Sherman (1867-1941) or other family members; subsequently inherited by General Sherman's granddaughter, Eleanor Sherman Fitch (1876-1959); donated to MAI by Eleanor Sherman Fitch in 1943.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Kiowa
- Artist/Maker
- Zotom (Biter/Zo-tom/Paul Caryl Zotom), Kiowa, 1853-1913; annotated by Colonel Richard Henry Pratt, Non-Indian, 1840-1924
- Subject
- General Benjamin Henry Grierson, Non-Indian, 1826-1911
- Commissioner
- Colonel Richard Henry Pratt, Non-Indian, 1840-1924
- Previous owner
- Colonel Richard Henry Pratt, Non-Indian, 1840-1924
- General William Tecumseh Sherman, Non-Indian, 1820-1891
- Possible owner
- P. Tecumseh Sherman (Philemon Tecumseh Sherman), Non-Indian, 1867-1941
- Previous owner
- Eleanor Sherman Fitch, Non-Indian, 1876-1959
- Donor
- Eleanor Sherman Fitch, Non-Indian, 1876-1959
- Date created
- 1875-1878
- Title
- General Grierson meeting the Kiowas on the Sweetwater, 1871
- Object Name
- Ledger drawing
- Media/Materials
- Paper, graphite, colored pencil, ink
- Techniques
- Drawn
- Dimensions
- 26.3 x 19.8 cm
- Object Type
- Painting/Drawing/Print
