No-ho-mun-ya, One Who Gives No Attention
Smithsonian American Art Museum

No-ho-mun-ya, One Who Gives No Attention

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1844

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

George Catlin described this man as “the finest looking man of the party,” and noted the chief’s “elegant” limbs and “Herculean” frame. The Iowa brave, who was also called “Roman Nose,” died in Liverpool, England, before the Iowa delegation departed for Paris.

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