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Cherry Creek Encampment, (sculpture). Artist:  Zweygardt, Tobe, sculptor. Zweygardt, Gus, assistant. Title:  Cherry Creek Encampment, (sculpture). Dates:  Dedicated Sept. 9, 1990. Medium:  Sculpture: bottom portion of a fuel tank and an old steel grain bin, cut; Foundation: metal and concrete. Inscription:  signed Description:  A sculpture arranged on a landscape setting consisting of a tee-pee, a bison, a prairie dog, and at the top of a hill, a Native-American male figure on horseback wearing a headdress and holding a spear with his raised arm. Subject:  Figure male -- Full length Ethnic -- Indian -- Cheyenne Allegory -- Place -- Cherry Creek Equestrian Animal -- Buffalo Animal -- Prairie Dog Architecture -- Domestic -- Tepee Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Kansas Sculpture Owner:  Owned by Zweygardt, Tobe, Route 2, Box 137, St. Francis, Kansas 67756 Located On Highway 27, near Cherry Creek, Cheyenne County, Kansas Remarks:  According to the artist, the sculpture represents "a documented 1864-65 Cheyenne Indian encampment and the last wild buffalo killed in Cheyenne County April, 1887." Nearby plaque reads: These Iron Sculptures by Tobe Zweygardt are in Memory of the Cheyenne and other Indian Survivors of the 29, Nov. 1864 Massacre of Sand Creek, Colo. Who fled to this Cherry Creek Valley remaing (sic) until Joined by forces of other plains tribes for an attack at Julesberg, Colo on 7 of Jan. 1865. IAS files contain a related article from the Country Advocate, June 11, 1990. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Kansas survey, 1994. Illustration:  Image on file. Country Advocate, June 11, 1990. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS KS000313   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture KS000313 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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