Object Details
Culture/People
Oklahoma Muscogee (Creek)
Artist/Maker
Fred Beaver (Eka La Nee [Brown Head]), Muscogee Nation (Creek)/Seminole, 1911-1980
Previous owner
Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
IACB source
Philbrook Museum of Art (Philbrook Art Center), 1939-
Collection History
Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Philbrook Museum of Art (Tulsa, Oklahoma) in 1960; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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Date created
1959
Catalog Number
26/2026
Barcode
262026.000
Object Type
Painting/Drawing/Print
Title
Seminole Mother and Baby
Object Name
Painting
Media/Materials
Paper, gouache/opaque watercolors
Techniques
Painted
Dimensions
44 x 33 cm
Place
Oklahoma; USA (inferred)
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Data Source
National Museum of the American Indian
Link to Original Record
Record ID
NMAI_278133