Eagle of Delight by Cephas Childs, Denver Art

Eagle of Delight, or Hayne Hudjihini, 1795-1822, 1 of the 5 wives of Chief Shaumonekusse of the Otoe tribe in present-day Nebraska, hand-coloured lithograph, 1833, by Cephas G Childs, 1793-1871, American artist, after an original painting by Charles Bird King, 1785-1862, American artist, from the William Sr and Dorothy Harmsen Collection, in the Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA. The original painting was commissioned by the Bureau of Indian Affairs after Eagle of Delight accompanied her husband and other Indian chiefs to Washington DC to meet with President James Monroe. The lithograph was published in History of the Indian Tribes of North America, published 1844. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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1822 1833 1844 Braids Bureau Cephas Childs Colorado Delight Denver Harmsen Hayne Lithography Plaits Tribes

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