Kiowa Indian Art Portfolio "War Dancer" [SOLD]

Hokea was orphaned while still a young boy and was raised by his grandparents. His grandfather was the warrior White Horse. According to Snodgrass, Hokea, although one of the Five Kiowas, did not contribute to the art world in his later years. Dockstader said that Hokea was such an exceptional dancer that it interfered with his painting time.

This silkscreen “War Dancer” was one of the 30 silkscreens published in the portfolio Kiowa Indian Art—Watercolor Paintings in Color by the Indians of Oklahoma, by C. Szwedzicki of Nice, France, in 1929. Only 750 copies of the volume were published. This image is number 220 of the 750. It has been matted and shrink-wrapped, not framed.

Provenance: From the estate of Margaret Morse Nice, an ornithologist from Oklahoma.