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Gathering Wild Rice

A hand-colored print, titled “Gathering Wild Rice,” showing three Chippewa women in a canoe near tall grasses. Two of the women beat rice in the canoe with paddles, and a third woman holds an oar in the water. Other canoes are visible in the background./tiles/collection/4/4232.xml
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A hand-colored print, titled “Gathering Wild Rice,” showing three Chippewa women in a canoe near tall grasses. Two of the women beat rice in the canoe with paddles, and a third woman holds an oar in the water. Other canoes are visible in the background.
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Date

ca. 1850

Artist

Seth Eastman

Dimensions

8 5/8 × 11 7/8 in. (21.9 × 30.2 cm) Framed: 16 3/8 × 17 3/4 in. (41.6 × 45.1 cm)

Accession Number

2004.087.015

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

Before the artist painted the subject for the House Committee on Indian Affairs, it appeared as a book illustration. Based on sketches he made in the 1840s while stationed at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, Seth Eastman illustrates Chippewa women gathering wild rice in traditional birch bark canoes.

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