Historical context

Numbered premium sets encouraged trade and completion. The "37" places this silk inside a longer roster of Indigenous portraits printed for one of the New York tobacco factories most active in the silk-premium era.

Curatorial notes

Kept unframed. The unfaded state functions as a color reference against which the worn "John Yellow Flower" can be read.

Interpretive themes

• — Advertising & Race
• — Series & Completion
• — Consumer Ephemera

Related artifacts

• — ARE-EPH-SILK-005