Sioux Indian Family

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Sioux Indian Family
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  • Title :     Sioux Indian Family
  • Artist:     Louis A. Maene Artist Works Progress Administration Other relation
  • Accession:     TD1992.1.5
  • Country:     United States Philadelphia Pennsylvania
  • Date:     1936
  • Dimensions:     Inches 11-1/2 15-3/4 6-3/4, Centimeters 29.2 40.0 17.1
  • Collection:     Object
  • Category:     Decorative Arts and Furniture
  • Collection Theme:     WPA and the New Deal
  • Subject:     WPA/Federal Arts Project , Native American , New Deal
  • Credit Line:     The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection
  • URL:     TD1992.1.5.JPG
  • Tags:     WPA and the New Deal~Decorative Arts and Furniture
Description:
Rectangular paperboard black box with hinged top and window cut in front; painted plaster scene inside of an Indian family consisting of an Indian brave on white horse and a squaw kneeling with a child in front of tepee; painted mountain and lake serve as a backdrop.