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Name

White Swan

Alternate name:

Mee'-nah-tsee

Mee-nah-tsee-us

Strikes Enemy

White Goose

Heritage

Crow

Gender

male

Dates

Lifespan

1851-1904

Date Note

birth and death dates are not authenticated. Other source gives birth as 1852 (?) - 1904. Lester cites 1852-8/1904/17.

Specialty / Medium

drawing

ledger drawing

painting

watercolor painting

fabric painting

muslin painting

battle scene

war as a theme in art

External Remarks

Artist’s work represented in the online Masterworks Arts and Artists Series of the Heard Museum.

Artist's file in Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum.

Artist’s physical folder is filed alphabetically in the Native American Artists Resource Collection under the following name:

White Swan

Artist's work is represented in the object collection of the Heard Museum

Exhibits

Lines and Codes: T. C. Cannon's Inheritance. Heard Museum. Phoenix, Arizona. October 7, 2017 - April 15, 2018.
Stories Outside the Lines: American Indian Ledger Art. Heard Museum. Phoenix, Arizona. March 29, 2014 - September 21, 2014.
American Indian Veterans National Memorial. Heard Museum. Phoenix, Arizona. November 14, 2012 - ongoing.
Stories Outside the Lines: American Indian Ledger Art. Heard Museum North. Scottsdale, Arizona. December 18, 2012 - October 22, 2013.
White Swan: Crow Indian Warrior and Painter. Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame, Indiana. October 13, 1991 - December 15, 1991.

Publications

Found 15 record(s)

Citation	Pages	Publication Date	Artist Citation Notes	Website
. "Art and Artistry of Plains Indian Communities Symposium". Gilcrease Museum Magazine, vol. 23, no. 3 (summer 2015). 2015.	16	2015	Illustrated with a color reproduction of White Swan's "War Record", watercolor, ink, and pencil on muslin, Gilcrease Museum catalog no. 0226.589; appears in the "Museum News" column of the magazine issue.
. "Collections, Coincidences, and Custer". Masterkey, vol. 9, no. 5 (September 1935). 1935.	145	1935	Cites Ho-gon (Silver Horn), Kicking Bear, and White Swan.
Batkin, Jonathan. Plains Indian Painting and Drawing of the 19th Century: A Gallery Guide. Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. 1983.	unpaginated	1983	Catalog of an exhibition
Bradley, Douglas E. White Swan: Crow Indian Warrior and Painter. Notre Dame, Ind.: Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame. 1991.		1991	Catalog of an exhibition
Cowles, David C. "White Swan: Crow Artist at the Little Big Horn". v. 7, no. 4, Autumn, 1982. American Indian Art Magazine.	52-61
Greene, Candace S. "Artists in Blue: the Indian Scouts of Fort Reno and Fort Supply". American Indian Art Magazine, vol. 18, no. 1 (winter 1992). 1992.	51, 57	1992	Includes a comparison of ledger art produced by Indian scouts at Fort Reno and Fort Supply to the paintings produced by Indian prisoners in Fort Marion (St. Augustine, Florida). Focuses on the graphic art of Cheyenne scouts who served with the army at Fort Reno and Fort Supply in the 1880s.
Hansen, Emma I. Plains Indian Buffalo Cultures: Art from the Paul Dyck Collection. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. 2018.	60-71	2018	Chapter 3 is devoted to White Swan and is entitled "White Swan, Crow Warrior and Artist". \| Foreword by Arthur Amiotte; published in cooperation with the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Lester, Patrick D. ~The Biographical Directory of Native American Painters. Tulsa, Oklahoma: SIR Publications. 1995.	617	1995	Includes tribal index and bibliographical references.
Lycett, Stephen J. and James D. Keyser. "Time's Arrow: toward a Social History of Crow Biographic Art Using Seriation and Multivariate Statistics". American Anthropologist, vol. 121, no. 2 (May 2019). 2019.	cover, 363-375	2019	Includes bibliographical references.
Lycett, Stephen J. and James D. Keyser. "White Swan: on Possible Further Additions to the Oeuvre of a Crow Warrior-Artist". Ethnohistory, vol. 68, no. 1 (January 2021). 2021.	1-27	2021	Includes bibliographical references.
Maurer, Evan M. "Visions of the People: A Pictorial History of Plains Indian Life". v. 18, no. 2, Spring, 1993. American Indian Art Magazine.	63
McCleary, Timothy P. Crow Indian Rock Art: Indigenous Perspectives and Interpretations. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press. 2016.	124, 131-132	2016	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nelson, Rebecca. White Swan: A Crow Indian Painter of the Nineteenth Century. 1984.		1984	Thesis (Master of Arts), Arizona State University
Thomas, Rodney G. Rubbing Out Long Hair=Pehin Hanska Kasota: The American Indian Story of the Little Big Horn in Art and Word. Spanaway, Wash.: Elk Plain Press. 2009.	17-20, 45-46, 257-292	2009
Wikipedia contributors. "White Swan". In: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia (host URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/) at source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Swan. 2013 .		2013	Current entry on White Swan in Wikipedia (viewed December 8, 2018); webpage created June 7, 2013, and revised and updated irregularly.	View

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