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Cha-Ki-Shi: Meskwaki family in their wickiup
Cha-Ki-Shi: Meskwaki family in their wickiup
Cha-Ki-Shi: Meskwaki family in their wickiup

Cha-Ki-Shi: Meskwaki family in their wickiup

Artist / Maker (Danish - American, 1885 - 1961)
Datec. 1936
MediumWatercolor and pencil on paper
Dimensions8 1/4 × 11 in. (21 × 27.9 cm)
ClassificationsDrawings
Credit LineGift of Charlotte Petersen to Special Collections, Iowa State University Library. Transferred to University Museums. In the Christian Petersen Art Collection, Christian Petersen Art Museum, University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
Object numberUM99.101
Status
Not on view
CultureAmerican
Label TextFor schoolbook Cha-Ki-Shi by Bessie Coon and Halla Rhode, published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, in 1936 for elementary school children, with illustrations by Petersen.
SignedSigned: CP chop mark
Locations
  • (not entered)  Iowa State University, Christian Petersen Art Museum
Cha-Ki-Shi: Inside the Wickiup
Object Name: Drawing / Watercolor
Christian Petersen
c. 1936
Object number: UM99.137
Cha-Ki-Shi: Inside the Wickiup
Object Name: Drawing
Christian Petersen
c. 1936
Object number: UM99.92
Cha-Ki-Shi: Preparatory studies
Object Name: Drawing
Christian Petersen
c. 1936
Object number: UM99.103
Cha-Ki-Shi: Study of Meskwaki housing
Object Name: Drawing with watercolor
Christian Petersen
c. 1936
Object number: UM99.99
Cha-Ki-Shi: Cha-Ki-Shi with Her Doll
Object Name: Drawing / Watercolor
Christian Petersen
c. 1936
Object number: UM99.129
Cha-Ki-Shi: The Hair Roll
Object Name: Drawing / Watercolor
Christian Petersen
c. 1936
Object number: UM99.126
Cha-Ki-Shi: Ba-wi-shi-ka Dressed for the Dance
Object Name: Drawing / Watercolor
Christian Petersen
1936
Object number: UM99.120
Cha-Ki-Shi: Gathering the Cattails
Object Name: Drawing / Watercolor
Christian Petersen
c. 1936
Object number: UM99.136
Cha-Ki-Shi: The Woman and Men Gather the Cattails
Object Name: Drawing with watercolor
Christian Petersen
c. 1936
Object number: UM99.110
Cha-Ki-Shi: Ba-wi-shi-ka Dressed for the Dance
Object Name: Drawing / Watercolor
Christian Petersen
c. 1936
Object number: UM99.135
Cha-Ki-Shi: Study for the cover
Object Name: Drawing with watercolor
Christian Petersen
c. 1936
Object number: UM99.133
Study for the History of Dairying: First concept
Object Name: Drawing
Christian Petersen
1934-1935
Object number: UM99.161