Amon Carter print details

Mr. Yellow Kidney Supervises Grandson Buster, Blackfeet, Two Medicine Community

Helen M. Post (1907-1979)

Object Details

  • Date

    ca. 1941

  • Object Type

    Photographs

  • Medium

    Gelatin silver print

  • Dimensions

    Image: 12 11/16 x 10 1/2 in.
    Sheet: 13 3/4 x 10 7/8 in.
    Mount: 18 1/2 x 15 1/4 in.

  • Inscriptions

    Recto:

    l.l. in image in graphite: Grandfather Yellow Kidney \ and Buster

    l.r. in image in graphite: Two Medicine Community \ Blackfeet, Montana 1941.

    Verso:

    u.l. in black crayon: Browning, Montana

    u.l. in graphite and pen: Blackfoot

    u.c. [stamp]: Permission to reproduce only by \ arrangement with HELEN M. POST \ [crossed out]: LEXINGTON AVE. \ NEW YORK CITY \ [in marker]: 203-927-3624

    u.r. in graphite: c/o Modley \ [in marker]: Kent Ct. 06757 \ [in graphite]: Walker 7-3624

    u.l. to c.r. in graphite: Mr. Yellow Kidney and grandson "Buster" \ who will remember the songs of \ his grandfather not only because the grandfather \ wants him to, but because he hears \ them and so do his older brothers & \ sisters and his mother and father \ as part of their regulat Sat. night \ games. He doesn't often get a drum \ to use but beats the rhythms \ with a stick on the ground or \ a two by four, which forms the \ adge of the game space -

    l.l. to l.c. in black crayon: One reproduction only, \ Please return print.

  • Collection Name

    Helen M. Post Collection

  • Credit Line

    Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of Peter Modley

  • Accession Number

    P1985.51.80

  • Copyright

    © Amon Carter Museum of American Art

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