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Trout Gallery Opening
September 7, 2007

A Kiowa's Odyssey: A Sketchbook from Fort Marion, opened at The Trout Gallery with a reception on Friday, Sept. 7.

The sketchbook, on display at The Trout Gallery this fall before being widely exhibited across the United States, contains illustrations made in 1877 by Etahdleuh Doanmoe, a Kiowa who was among 72 Indians captured by the U.S. Army during the Plains Wars and incarcerated for three years at Fort Marion, Fla.

The exhibition will be on display until Jan. 12.

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Visitors to The Trout Gallery opening, A Kiowa's Odyssey: A Sketchbook from Fort Marion, examine framed sketches done by incarcerated American Indians.






Right: Visitors discuss an enlargement of one of the sketches.



Photos by A. Pierce Bounds '71