Smithsonian American Art Museum
Jú-ah-kís-gaw, Woman With Her Child in a Cradle
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1835
George Catlin described this work as “the portrait of a Chippeway woman . . . with her child in its crib or cradle . . . [the umbilicus] hanging before the child's face for its supernatural protector . . . This woman's dress was mostly made of civilized manufactures, but curiously decorated and ornamented according to Indian taste.” (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 2, no. 51, 1841; reprint 1973)
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