Posted 11 years ago
PrimePickins
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We bought this sculpted head of Chief Joseph, Chief of the Nez Perce tribe at the swap meet. The head is signed Olin Warner 1886, then mentions "copy Y. Lewis Sc. or something like that along the bottom
We'd like to learn more about this item, if anyone is familiar. Please help!
So it is a copy of the Olin Warner Sc. portrait of Joseph, Hin-Mah-Too-Yah-Lat-Kekht.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/06.313
http://www.americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=26749
The Sc. behind his name is short for sculptor, I think.