Smithsonian American Art Museum
Ni-có-man, The Answer, Second Chief
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1830
The Answer was a chief of the Delaware/Lenape tribe, and George Catlin probably painted his portrait in 1830 at Fort Leavenworth (in today’s Kansas), where the artist created his first portraits of Indians in the West. (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 2, no. 47, 1841; reprint 1973)
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