Describing this painting Tim Todish wrote, “This warrior wears a brain-tanned bearskin as a robe. The use of animal skins in this manner gave the Indians a mystique and an aura of fierceness that often struck fear into the hearts of early white settlers.”

PROVENANCE
The Artist
[Settlers West Galleries, Tucson, AZ 2007]
Private Collection, Tucson, AZ 2007
Private Collection, MT

EXHIBITED
Summer Show, Settlers West Galleries, Tucson, AZ, May 2007

LITERATURE
Tim J. Todish, The Narrative Art of Robert Griffing, Volume II (Gibsonia, PA: Paramount Press, Inc., 2007), p 140, illustrated