Gaw-záw-que-dung, He Who Halloes
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Gaw-záw-que-dung, He Who Halloes

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1836

oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Smithsonian American Art Museum

He Who Halloes was a member of the Ojibwe/Chippewa tribe. George Catlin painted this portrait at Sault Ste. Marie (in today’s Michigan) in 1836. (Truettner, The Natural Man Observed, 1979)

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