Canada stamp remembers Four Indian Kings

Four Indian Kings-2010 sheet
Four Indian Kings-2010 sheet

This April 19th, 2010, Canada Post began issuing a series of stamps commemorating the 300th anniversary of a painting of Four Indian Kings sent as envoys to England. The stamps, like the original portraits painted by Dutch artist Jan Verelst, show the four Indian chiefs alongside their clan ‘dodem’ (animal entity which watches over a clan).

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