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Indian Group, (sculpture). Artist:  Ives, Chauncey Bradley, 1810-1894, sculptor. Unknown (Rome, Italy), founder. Title:  Indian Group, (sculpture). Other Titles:  Historical Incident of November 1764, (sculpture). Dates:  Cast 1886. Dedicated Nov, 29, 1895. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sculpture: bronze: Base: Italian marble. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. 85 x 93 x 30 in.; Base: approx. H. 60 in. x D. 12 ft. 4 in. Inscription:  C.B. Ives / Fecit / Roma (On back of bronze base:) A GIFT TO THE CITY OF NEWARK NEW JERSEY U.S.A., A.D. 1895 FROM JOHNATHAN ACKERMAN COLES (On back of marble base:) "GOD OF OUR FATHERS' BLESS/EXALT IN RIGHTEOUSNESS/THIS LAND OF OURS/BE RIGHT OUR LOFTY AIM/OUR TITLE AND OUR CLAIM/TO HIGH AND HIGHER FAME/AMONG THE POWERS."/ABRAHAM COLES NATIONAL HYMN signed Description:  A bronze figure group illustrating a scene that took place at the close of the French and Indian wars. Here a Native-American male warrior is flanked by his wife who is dressed in animal skins, and her mother who is dressed in colonial attire. The warrior stands with his proper left arm around his wife who embraces him tightly. On the warrior's proper right side, his wife's mother kneels with her hands clasped as she sings a childhood song in the hope that her long lost daughter will recognize her. The scene relates to the truce in the fall of 1764 in which British officer Colonel Bouquet ordered all captured settlers be returned to their native towns to be united with their families. This included young women, such as the one depicted in this sculpture, who during their captivity had taken Native-American husbands and were reluctantly lead back to the parents they had almost forgotten. The sculpture rests on an oval marble base that is surrounded by a wrought iron fence. Subject:  Figure group History -- United States -- Colonization Ethnic -- Indian Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- New Jersey -- Newark Sculpture Owner:  Administered by City of Newark, Department of Engineering, 970 Broad Street, City Hall, Newark, New Jersey 07102 Located Lincoln Park, Spruce Street, Broad Street, & Clinton Avenue, Newark, New Jersey Remarks:  The sculpture was a gift of J. Ackerman Coles, M.D., LL.D. IAS files contain a copy of the National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form; and a transcription of an article that appeared in The Sentinel of Freedom (Newark, NJ), Sept. 10, 1895, pg. 8. References:  Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985 "Newark Museum Quarterly," Newark, N.J.: Newark Museum Association, Winter 1975. Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Jersey survey, 1995. Illustration:  Image on file. 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 76001624   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 76001624 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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