Smithsonian American Art Museum
Aú-nah-kwet-to-hau-páy-o, One Sitting in the Clouds, a Boy
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1831
“This tribe [Menominee] living out of the reach of buffaloes, cover themselves with blankets, instead of robes, and wear a profusion of beads and wampum, and other trinkets.” George Catlin probably executed this portrait in Washington in1831. (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 2, no. 52, 1841; reprint 1973)
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