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| Keywords: E. Irving Couse, 'The Captive', 1891.jpg Artwork Creator Eanger Irving Couse digital upload by SMcCandlish sexual implications rather strong for the art of the period stereotyping of w Native Americans and conversely noble savage romanticization of them Backstory as provided by Robfergusonjr In 1838 Dr Marcus Whitman and his wife came to the Oregon Territory to establish a mission to the Cayuse Indians under the sponsorship of the New England Mission Board In time immigrants also came to the area and settled around the Whitman mission All went well until there was an epidemic of measles The Indians were stricken by the disease and though treated by the Whitmans were not able to respond so well to medical treatment Angry and terrified they accused Dr Whitman of deliberately poisoning them to get their land In late November of 1847 they attacked the mission and murdered most of the staff including Dr Whitman and his wife A number of others were taken captive among them Lorinda Bewly a seventeen-year-old teacher at the mission who was spared from death by a Cayuse chief named Five Crows When he saw her he decided that he would enjoy the novelty of a white woman for a wife Needless to say this did not meet with a favorable response from the captured girl Couse's painting shows us a dramatic scene Lorinda is lying on the floor of the chief's teepee unconscious with bloody bonds testifying to a terrified but courageous struggle Five Crows is seated on the floor staring at her and unable to fathom her behavior her aversion to him Couse has shown us two cultures in tragic juxtaposition and we are able perhaps to have an understanding of each 1891 digital upload 2011-09-26 oil unknown Original painting digital photograph thereof Public domain other versions File The Captive jpg smaller poor quality image PD-old-auto-1923 1936 Paintings of Native Americans by Eanger Irving Couse 19th-century portrait paintings location missing Cayuse 1891 paintings 19th-century oil paintings of recumbent women at full length 19th-century oil paintings of sitting men at full length Bison fur-skins in art Captivity narrative Paintings of recumbent women supine Romantic paintings in the United States Romantic paintings of men Romantic paintings of women Rope bondage in art Uploaded with UploadWizard | ||||
