Smithsonian American Art Museum
Pah-te-cóo-saw, Straight Man, Semicivilized
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1830
George Catlin recorded that when Pah-te-cóo-saw came to sit for his portrait, he had decorated his face “in a very curious manner with black and red paint.” The warrior has slightly European features and appears to be wearing a European shirt and coat. (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 2, no. 49, 1841; reprint 1973)
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