Chief Clam Fish
by Peter Ogden
Title
Chief Clam Fish
Artist
Peter Ogden
Medium
Painting - Chromolithograph
Description
This is a restored copy of Clam Fish, Warm Springs, a circa 1888 tobacco advertising card published by Allen and Ginter depicting a Native American Indian wearing a feathered headdress and surrounded by traditional Native American artifacts including spears and an antique birch bark canoe.
Allen & Ginter was a Richmond, Virginia, tobacco manufacturing company formed by John F. Allen and Lewis Ginter around 1880. The firm created and marketed the first cigarette cards for collecting and trading in the United States.
Birch bark or birchbark is the bark of several Eurasian and North American birch trees of the genus Betula. The strong and water-resistant cardboard-like bark can be easily cut, bent, and sewn, which has made it a valuable building, crafting, and writing material, since pre-historic times.
A canoe is a lightweight narrow water vessel, typically pointed at both ends and open on top, propelled by one or more seated or kneeling paddlers facing the direction of travel and using a single-bladed paddle. In British English, the term "canoe" can also refer to a kayak, while canoes are called Canadian, or open, canoes to distinguish them from kayaks.
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March 10th, 2019
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