Smithsonian American Art Museum
Láh-shee, The Licker, called "Creek Billy"
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1838
George Catlin described the sitter as “a half-breed warrior” and “a very handsome fellow.” He painted Creek Billy at Fort Moultrie, near Charleston, South Carolina, in January 1838, along with other Seminole warriors imprisoned there. (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 2, no. 57, 1841, reprint 1973, and 1848 Catalogue, Catlin’s Indian Gallery, SAAM online exhibition)
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