Smithsonian American Art Museum
Pa-ris-ka-roó-pa, Two Crows, a Chief
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832
The subject was dressed, according to George Catlin, in a “handsome shirt, ornamented with ermine, and necklace of grisly bears’ claws.” The artist painted this work at a Hidatsa village in 1832. (Catlin, 1848 Catalogue, Catlin’s Indian Gallery, SAAM online exhibition)
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