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Portrait of Canadian Indians: three adults and a child
Portrait of Canadian Indians: three adults and a child
Portrait of Canadian Indians: three adults and a child
This is a full length image of two Native women, a man, and a child, probably Huron-Wendat, in a winter landscape. On the back of this painting is a second painting of a young man (?) and a child in a summer or fall background. These works are by Phillip J. Bainbrigge and date from 1840.
This work is part of a group of four portraits of Huron-Wendat men, women and children of Jeune Lorette by Phillip Bainbrigge.
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Watercolour
Watercolour drawing
The image on the front is a full length portrayal of three adults and a child in a winter landscape. There is what looks to be a child's toboggan in front of the figures. The three adults wear black top hats, the two women wear headscarves under their hats. Their white blankets are edged in black bands and their moccasins are a light brown, with embroidered vamps just visible. The child is dressed exactly as the adults, but without a top hat.
On the back of this painting is a second painting, of what looks like a young man and a child. This seems to be in summer or fall, the boy wears an ivory tunic, the child an ivory blanket but without the black border seen on the blankets of the other figures. Both wear reddish leggings. The young man wears what looks like a straw hat. Their moccasins are black with embroidered vamps visible on the boy's pair.
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The figures in the work are from the Huron-Wendat nation, of the Great Lakes region.