

Carrie Cornplanter
Carrie Cornplanter (born 1887) was a Native American artist of the Seneca tribe.
Little is recorded of Cornplanter's life save that she was the elder sister of Jesse Cornplanter, had a sister named Anna, and had children of her own, and that her native name was "dédon". The three were descendants of Chief Cornplanter. Carrie's paintings are among the earliest known by an American Indian woman to depict traditional aspects of native life. Most were created during the last decade of the 19th century or the first decade of the 20th. One such work, Indian Woman Pounding Corn, is owned by the National Museum of the American Indian. Dating probably to around 1900 it was donated to the museum in 1922 by Joseph W. Keppler, a friend of George Gustav Heye who had likely purchased the piece directly from the artist or from a member of her family.