Wah-chee-háhs-ka, Man Who Puts All Out of Doors
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Wah-chee-háhs-ka, Man Who Puts All Out of Doors

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1835

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

Man Who Puts All Out of Doors was a member of the Winnebago tribe, and George Catlin described him as “the largest man of the tribe, with rattle-snakes' skins on his arms, and his war-club in his hand.” (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 2, no. 52, 1841; reprint 1973)

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