Indians of North America--Portraits

Beatrice Howie Mackey informs Theodore Roosevelt she painted a portrait of Salish Chief Charlo a few months before his death. She intends to send it to him for evaluation and asks for help putting it in a collection. Previous attempts to exhibit her work have yet to be successful. Living on the reservation, she provides for herself and two boys through painting and wants the opportunity to show her work.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-27

William H. Taft and William Jennings Bryan, as Native Americans, sit by their tepees. Taft is heating his full dinner pail over a small fire, and Bryan is beating on a drum labeled “Discontent.” J. S. Sherman and John W. Kern are sitting on the ground among a group of others standing in the background.

comments and context

Comments and Context

“Making Medicine” is the first major political cartoon in Puck by the illustrator and cartoonist Will Crawford who, like the magazine’s owner and chief political cartoonist Udo J. Keppler, was a proponent of Indian rights, a student of Native American lore, and eventually an honorary member of tribes. Frequently, therefore, Crawford used Native American traditions, customs, and dress in his cartoons; virtually never is disrespect.