Smithsonian American Art Museum
Káw-kaw-ne-chóo-a, a Brave
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1828
George Catlin described this Brave, along with the Snake (see 1985.66.213), as “fair specimens of the [Winnebago] tribe, who are generally a rather short and thick-set, square shouldered set of men.” The artist probably painted the two portraits in Washington, D.C., in the autumn of 1828. (Truettner, The Natural Man Observed, 1979)
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