Smithsonian American Art Museum
Ráw-no-way-wóh-krah, Loose Pipestem, a Brave
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832
George Catlin painted Loose Pipestem’s portrait “full length . . . in a tunic made of the entire skin of a grizzly bear, with a head-dress of war-eagle's quills.” (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 2, no. 34, 1841; reprint 1973)
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