M0008895: Portrait of Sem-Medeeks of Gitinanga, by W. Langdon Kihn

Date:
13 July 1943
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WT/D/1/20/1/77/98
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M0008895: Portrait of Sem-Medeeks of Gitinanga, by W. Langdon Kihn. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Portrait of American Indians by W. Langdon Kihn.

Description

Watercolour of Sem-Medeeks of the Laxsgiik (Eagle) Clan of the Gitxsan nation (previously Gitinanga), British Columbia, by Wilfred Langdon Kihn in 1924. Sem-Medeeks is wearing an amheleit (headdress) carved with the face of an eagle, along with a blanket or cloak and is holding a rattle. The painting was commissioned by Sir Henry Wellcome for the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1926 and accessioned in June 1931 (accession number CC 8484). It was later removed from the collection and sold at auction (Sotheby's Toronto, 26-28 October 1970, lot 281). Related images: M0008894, M0008896, M0008897, M0008898, M0008899.

Publication/Creation

13 July 1943

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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