Chief Black Bird From the Rees-Jones Collection at Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth
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Chief Black Bird From the Rees-Jones Collection at Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth
Published 2016-01-04T17:13:55+00:00
Chief Blackbird (Wash-ing-guhsah-ba) (ca. 1750 – 1800) was the leader of the OmahaNative American Indian tribe who commanded the trade routes used by Spanish, French,British and later American traders until the late 18th century. He was one of the first of thePlains Indian chiefs to trade with white explorers and also believed to be the first of the Plains Indian chiefs to openly question white encroachment. Blackbird used trade as a means to prosperity for his people and as a way to ensure white explorers were aware that they were the guests. The Omaha were not warlike people, yet they were the first on the Great Plains to have mastered equestrianism around 1770 and were at one point, while Chief Blackbird was alive, the most powerful Indian tribe in the Great Plains.
Chief Blackbird died during a smallpox epidemic in 1800. In 1804, the Lewis and Clark Expedition members were led to Chief Blackbird's burial site, which sits on a bluff on the west side of the Missouri River, in present day Nebraska.
Blackbird Bend in western Iowa is named for Blackbird.
http://www.cartermuseum.org/exhibitions/tales-from-the-american-west-the-rees-jones-collection
"September 5, 2015–February 21, 2016
Dallas collector Trevor Rees-Jones first became interested in art and the American West when visiting the Amon Carter Museum of American Art as a young boy.
Years later that experience led Rees-Jones to gather one of the finest private collections of art of the American West, spanning the eighteenth century through the 1920s, including paintings, watercolors, sculpture, and photographs. The selection of the Rees-Jones Collection on view marks its debut showing in a museum."
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Scanned : Photogrammetry (Processed using Agisoft PhotoScan)
Printed by: ITCHY PIG CREATIONS Printed with a Makerbot Replcator 2 Sliced with Simplify3D Print time- 8 hours 20 min Print settings- 20% infill- 2 shells- .20 mm layer height filament- Colorfabb white pla
Date published | 04/01/2016 |
Time to do | 500 - minutes |
Material Quantity | 95 |
Dimensions | 112x93x125 mm |
Technology | FDM |
Title | Chief Black Bird |
Dimension | x |
Accession | 2013.13.5 |
Period | modeled 1903 |
Medium | Bronze |
Credit | Roman Bronze Works, New York, cast 1903. From the Rees-Jones Collection |
Artist | Adolph Alexander Weinman |
Printed in AmazonBasics Wood (0.14mm layer height; 15% infill; print time: 19 hours)