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Squint Eyes
From  1875 to 1878, a man named Tichkematse, or Squint Eyes, was held prisoner at Fort Marion, an outpost in northeast Florida. He was a Cheyenne Indian and a gifted watercolorist, and he gazed into the distance when he sat for the camera. After his release, he returned to western Oklahoma and found work as a scout, often accompanying his employers on hunts of antelope, turkey, or deer. And he continued to paint, compiling a rare collection of watercolors in a lined notebook. This site, from the National Anthropological Archives, shares many of Squint Eye's illustrations of those hunts. They form one of just two sets of work by formerly imprisoned Plains Indians, and they offer a unique insight into their moment in time. (in Visual Arts) |
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