Indian Encampment, Comanche (or Kiowa) Dressing Skins, Red River
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Object Details
- Artist
- George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872
- Luce Center Label
- “These people, living in a country where buffaloes are abundant, make their wigwams more easily of their skins, than of anything else; and with them find greater facilities of moving about, as circumstances often require; when they drag them upon the poles attached to their horses, and erect them again with little trouble in their new residence.” George Catlin executed this work in Paris between 1846 and 1848. (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 2, no. 42, 1841; reprint 1973)
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
- 1846-1848
- Object number
- 1985.66.597
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 19 5/8 x 27 1/2 in. (49.7 x 70.0 cm)
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Figure group
- Western
- Landscape\Texas
- Indian\Comanche
- Landscape\river\Red River
- Architecture Exterior\domestic\teepee
- Record ID
- saam_1985.66.597
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk723cbc79b-207f-4d1d-8607-083300fc7797
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