- Object Name
- Maker
- Culture
- Title
Battle of the Washita
- Date
1890
- Materials
Watercolor on muslin, framed
- Dimensions
43 in x 65 in (109.2 cm x 165.1 cm)
- Place Collected
- Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Elizabeth C. Anderson
- Object ID
653.G.1
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- Institution
Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection, Autry Museum of the American West
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- Category
Art and Artifacts
- Remarks
Painting by Silverhorn (Ka'igwu (Kiowa)), Battle of the Washita, 1890. On November 27, 1868 George Armstrong Custer attacked the village of Cheyenne chief Black Kettle on the Washita River. Black Kettle, a peace advocate who had survived the Sand Creek Massacre, and his wife Medicine Women were killed as they tried to flee. Custer took fifty-three women and children captive to serve as hostages and human shields.
- Subject