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NATIVE AMERICAN PRINT CHIEF 0-CHE-FINCECO
1843 O-CHE FINCECO Lithograph, Copy after Charles Bird King Painting. ( Born: Newport, Rhode Island 1785 Died: Washington, District of Columbia 1862 ) Published by Daniel Rice and James G. Clark (Publisher) Lithographic and Print Coloring Establishment (Printer) Hand-colored lithograph on paper: Measure 15 1/2" high, 12 1/4" wide. Dated 1843 . Oche-Finceco was a Creek chief who signed the treaty between his nation and the federal government in Washington in 1826. It is unclear whether or not he was bribed to do so, but afterwards, he committed suicide. As Superintendent of the Indian Trade Bureau, Thomas McKenney wanted to document the rapidly disappearing culture of the American natives. He activated the project, sponsored by the War Department, by commissioning writer James Hall and Charles Bird King, a renowned American portraitist. King painted the prominent Indians while they visited Washington D.C. as treaty delegates. Most of the original oil paintings were destroyed by fire in the Smithsonian Museum in 1865. These lithographs, published 1842-58, are all that remain and are still hailed as one of the best visual records of influential Native Americans of the nineteenth century.
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