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Object Name: painting
Maker: John Mix Stanley
Title: Young Chief Uncas
Date: circa 1870
Materials: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 24 in x 20 in (60.9 cm x 50.8 cm)
Credit Line: Museum purchase
Object ID: 88.108.10

Institution: Autry Museum of the American West

Category: Art and Artifacts

Remarks

Painting by John Mix Stanley, Young Chief Uncas, circa 1870. Signed toward right edge of bottom center line. Chief Uncas is a character from James Fenimore Cooper's 1826 novel, Last of the Mohicans. Based on a seventeenth-century Monhegan chief who allied with the English during the Pequot War of 1637, Uncas became a romantic symbol of all that was noble about Native America.

Subject

Art of the West (exhibition)

portraits

North American Indians

Uncas

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