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The Mountain Mother

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Leather album page with a photograph of a mother bear and her two cubs in bronze. Remarks about the photograph include, "Mother and cubs hunting ants on the old pine top. She is scolding one of the cubs who is reaching too far over the edge and might slip off."

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Title(s): 
The Mountain Mother
Creator(s): 
Charles Marion Russell (Artist)
George D. Sack (Author)
Culture: 
American
Date: 
1924
Materials/Techniques: 
gelatin silver process
Classification: 
Object Type: 
Credit Line: 
Gilcrease Museum/The University of Tulsa
Accession No: 
TU2009.39.8387.27
Previous Number(s): 
E.417; 45754; E.417 (Colorado Springs number)
Department: 
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