Elk Foot of the Taos Tribe

by Peter Ogden

Title

Elk Foot of the Taos Tribe

Artist

Peter Ogden

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

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This is a restored copy of Elk-Foot of the Taos Tribe, oil on canvas, 1909, by Eanger Irving Couse, 1866-1936, famed American painter of Native American Indian scenes and a member of the Taos Society of Artists. This painting portrays a Taos Pueblo Native American Indian man holding a feather tipped spear while seated and wrapped in a blanket. His legs are clothed in a beaded hand made pair of Native American buckskin moccasin boots.
Taos Pueblo is an ancient pueblo belonging to a Taos-speaking Native American tribe of Puebloan people. It lies about one mile north of the modern city of Taos, New Mexico and has been continuously inhabited for over five hundred years. The pueblos are considered to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the United States. This has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Taos Society of Artists was an organization of visual arts founded in Taos, New Mexico in 1915; it disbanded in 1927.

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January 23rd, 2020

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