Smithsonian American Art Museum
Won-de-tów-a, The Wonder
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1835
George Catlin probably made this painting of the Wonder, a member of the Winnebago tribe, at Prairie du Chien in present-day Wisconsin in 1835. The artist had first seen the Winnebagoes when a nine-member delegation came to Washington, D.C., in 1828. (Truettner, The Natural Man Observed , 1979)
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