Annotation for drawing: "Zotom"/ Kiowa and Apache taking Mexican wagon train/ Zotom (Hole-Bite) wearing face and body paint in costume with mounted bird atop head; carrying an oily-cloth-draped feathered, glued lance and attacking Mexican (?) men, covered wagon. Graphite and ink drawing, 1875, by Kiowa (Koba), Fort Marion, Florida, 1875. Many Indian captives at the time of the Indian Wars were sent to prison at Fort Marion, where they created a variety of artwork. Image (INV 08547601 NAA MS 39C) courtesy of National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
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