Edmonia Lewis, The Old Arrow Maker

Edmonia Lewis, The Old Arrow Maker, modeled 1866, carved c. 1872, marble, 50.8 x 35.6 x 35.6 cm (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art)

Additional resources

This work at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

Kirsten Pai Buick, Children of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2010).

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