| Medium: | oil on canvas, lined |
| Size: | 20 x 16 in (51 x 41 cm) |
| Inscription: | l/l "F.Schafer", in the artist's characteristic block-letter hand |
| Verso: | none visible (lined) |
| Provenance: | An Anaheim, California, garage sale circa 1973; to private collection, Garden Grove, California; with DeRu's Fine Arts, Bellflower, California, November 1982. |
| Citations: | Personal communications, 1990 and 2004 |
| Description: | Six tepees surrounded with activity stand in the middle distance in a field of brown grass, with a path leading toward them, a lake beyond, and hills to the left of the lake. A woman carrying a papoose on her back follows the path past a foreground boulder down a slope, following a women in a red scarf who carries a pack. Three more figures lead the procession. In the lake, a large rock stands just off the shore. The sky is a cloudy blue and grey. (From a color photograph.) |
| Note: | See the list of Indians in desert locales for several possibly related pictures. |
| Legend: | At the same garage sale, the 1973 collector also purchased an easel that was said to belong to the artist, Frederick F. Schafer. |
| Identification: | Assigned, descriptive title. |
| In index(es): | Title list, Indian encampments as primary subjects, Indians in desert locales |
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