Smithsonian American Art Museum
Wa-sáw-me-saw, Roaring Thunder, Youngest Son of Black Hawk
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832
“I painted also the following portraits, which are now in my Collection . . . Wa-saw-me-saw (the roaring thunder), youngest son of Black Hawk; painted while prisoner of war.” (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 2, no. 56, 1841; reprint 1973)
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