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Bón-són-gee, New Fire, a Band Chief
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1834
George Catlin called New Fire, a chief of the Kiowa, “a very good man” and described the ornaments hanging on his breast as a boar's tusk and a war whistle. Catlin painted this portrait at a Comanche village in 1834. (Catlin, <i>Letters and Notes</i>, vol. 2, no. 43, 1841; reprint 1973)
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