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collection & exhibitions

Special Exhibitons
SAMUEL COLT:
Arms, Art, and Invention
Masterpieces of
American Indian Art
No Ordinary Lives
History of Broadcasting
Urban Texas
Suitably Dressed
Sense of Self
JA: The Palo Duro Ranch
Furnishing Amarillo
The Book of Books: Texts that Shaped the Times
A Kiowa's Odyssey: A Sketchbook from Ft. Marion
Panhandle-Plains Invitational Western Art Show and Sale
Davis Map Collection
The Johnie Griffin Collection
Olive Vandruff: 100 at 100
Studer and Johnson: Treasures of the Panhandle
75th Anniversary Exhibit
The Santa Fe Collection
Don Ray Retrospective
A KIOWA'S ODYSSEY: A SKETCHBOOK FROM FORT MARION
 
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March 29 – May 26, 2008

This 32-page sketchbook of drawings by the Kiowa warrior Etahdleuh Doanmoe chronicle the experience of seventy-two Comanche, Kiowa, Arapaho, and Caddo who were captured at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, in 1875 during uprisings associated with the Plains Wars. To stem further uprisings, the Indian prisoners were exiled to Ft. Marion, Florida. Under the direction of Lt. Richard Henry Pratt, they were made to adopt Western values, appearance, behavior, language, and beliefs. Etahdleuh’s drawings illustrate the capture of the Indians, their passage to Florida, and their time at Fort Marion.