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Chief Weasel Head / Alexander Phimister Proctor

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Proctor made studies for this work on a hunting trip to Montana Territory in 1895. This work was registered at Gorham the same day as Aims Back (0826.77, 0826.78), January 28, 1914, and assigned the next code in the sequence—QUE. Like Aims Back, this bronze was also apparently a marketplace flop, and only two are known to exist.

From the exhibition:Frontier to Foundry: the Making of Small Bronze Sculpture in the Gilcrease Collection, December 2014 - March 2015.
Ann Boulton Young, Associate Conservator for the Gilcrease Museum, 2014.

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Title(s): 
Chief Weasel Head
Creator(s): 
Alexander Phimister Proctor (Artist)
Gorham Manufacturing Company (Artist)
Culture: 
American
Date: 
modeled 1897; plaster-mold cast 1914
Materials/Techniques: 
plaster-mold cast in bronze
Classification: 
Object Type: 
Credit Line: 
Dr. Philip Cole Collection, Gift of the Thomas Gilcrese Foundation
Accession No: 
08.75
Previous Number(s): 
0826.75; 33590
Department: 
Not On View

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