Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Silver Horn

Silver Horn

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Original – Painting of Silver Horn, an important Kiowa ledger artist. Silver Horn's ledger drawings provide important insight into Kiowa culture, including warfare and warrior culture, clothing, dance, courtship, hunting, and everyday life among the Kiowa.

Reason: Large and high quality. The painting shows an important person in Kiowa history and depicts traditional Kiowa clothing.
Articles in which this image appears: Silver Horn
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/USA History
Creator: Elbridge Ayer Burbank

Support as nominator --MatGTAM (talk) 17:24, 28 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support It's not the best painting ever, but it's a good depiction of the otherwise poorly-documented appearance of a notable person. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 18:13, 28 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support In the absence of photos such contemporary portraits are especially valuable. Reminds the craft of George Catlin. Brandmeister^talk 21:00, 28 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Looks very blurry, and considering the size of this image (4,161 × 6,400 pixels), image size is on the low side. Otherwise quite interesting, and to be honest I'd never heard of ledger drawings. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:29, 29 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - Oh, what the heck. I can't find anything to show my fears are founded in something real. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:35, 7 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support, nice find. I added it to Burbank's article, since it's the best scan one of his paintings we have, and cleaned up the caption here a little. This was a popular style of painting and influential for views of Native Americans after 1900. Chick Bowen 02:00, 7 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Hawgone - Silver Horn - Kiowa chief.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:33, 7 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]