Kee-O-Kuck or The Watching Fox : The present Chief of the Sauk tribe and Successor to Black Hawk / Painted by J.O. Lewis at the great treaty of Prairie du Chien 1825.

Notes:

Full-length portrait of Kee-O-Kuck (variant spelling Keokuk) bare-chested holding a large spear and wearing a ceremonial dance bustle, trade silver armbands, a peace medal that appears to bear the likeness of Andrew Jackson, a headdress made of dyed red feathers, red face paint around his eyes, and white body paint in the form of stripes, bands and handprints.

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University of Michigan. Libraries

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William L. Clements Library Image Bank

Subject Topic:

Jackson, Andrew,--1767-1845--Portraits.; Keokuk,--Sauk chief,--1780?-1848.; Indians of North America--Portraits.; Indians of North America--Treaties.; Indians of North America--Clothing.; Sauk Indians--Portraits.; Body painting--1820-1830.; Headdresses--1820-1830.; Medals--1820-1830.; Spears--1820-1830.; Tribal chiefs--Wisconsin--Prairie du Chien--1820-1830.; Prints shelf.; Lehman & Duval Lithrs,--lithographer.; The aboriginal port-folio: a collection of portraits of the most celebrated chiefs of the North American Indians.; United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

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