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94 The Chronicles of Oklahoma
UNVEILING OF THE SCULPTURED BRONZE OF ALIcE BRoWN DAVIS,
CmEFTAIN OF THE SEMINOLES, OKLAHOMA PAVILION,
NEw YORK WORLD'S FAIR, JUNE 12, 1964
The National Hall of Fame for Famous American In-
dians nominated (1961) the late Alice Brown Davis, Chief-
tain of the Seminoles, for the honor of a bronze portrait
bust to be placed in its outdoor museum, a landscaped area
at Anadarko. The outdoor museum of this American Indian
Hall of Fame (organized 1952) has grown into a place of
national significance where due recognition of famous
American Indians in the history of our Country has been
made in concentrated grouping, their likenesses in bronze
along with their heroic stories preserved for the enlighten-
rnent of students and tourists in this part of the West for
all time.
The outdoor museum of the American Indian Hall of
Fame aimed and built toward beautiful bronzes depicting
scenes in the history of the American Indians, to include
bronze portrait busts of notable Indian personalities in this
history, now has on exhibit among its background pieces two
large bronzes (6% feet in height)-"Howling Wolf Pair" and
"Bear and Cubs"-by the world famous Anna Hyatt Hunt-
ington, and 13 busts (12 cast in outdoor bronze) by noted
artists in sculpture. All the sculptured pieces have been
gifts to the outdoor museum exhibit donated through the
generosity of individuals and organizations that are appre-
ciative and interested in preserving something of the art,
culture and history of the American scene. The Oklahoma
Historical Society represented by some of its members and
by its Board of Directors has been actively interested in
the program work of the American Indian Hall of Fame
since its beginning.
The donors of the bronze portrait bust of the late
Seminole Chieftain, Alice Brown Davis, were members of
her family, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Garrard, of McAlester, and
Mrs. William S. Key, of Oklahoma City. This bronze bust
(heroic size like other portrait busts in the Indian Hall
of Fame area) was unveiled on "Oklahoma Day" in the
Oklahoma Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, on June
14, 1964, by Mrs. Tom Garrard, a granddaughter of the Alice
Brown Davis. This beautiful sculptured bronze is the work
of one of Oklahoma's gifted Indian artists, Willard Stone
of Locust Grove, who used as the model his own portraiture