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Fighting Bucks

Oscar Howe · 1967

Catalog medium
Gouache/opaque watercolor on paper
Collection
National Museum of the American Indian
Accession
27/217

Physical record

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Metric
51.5 × 68.5 cm
Approx. imperial
1 ft 8.3 in × 2 ft 3 in
Planar area (calculated)
0.35 m²
Width / 170 cm reference
0.4×
Height / 170 cm reference
0.3×

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Source interpretationhigh certainty

postwar modernism context

NMAI describes Howe’s 1950s–1960s development as an innovative and abstract approach rooted in Yanktonai Dakota cultural continuity rather than a contradiction between modernity and tradition.

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