Collection Highlights
Lincoln visits General McClellan at Antietam
Date:
1862, published later
Object Number:
PR.065.778.5
Medium:
Stereograph
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Medicine Man (Blackfoot): Plate 173
Object Number:
1872.23.173
Date:
1866-68
Medium:
Graphite and black ink on prepared card
Dimensions:
Overall: 18 3/8 x 24 in. (46.7 x 61 cm)
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right inside image in black ink: "Geo. Catlin"; inscribed at upper center outside image in black ink over graphite: "Pl. 173. / Medecine Man (Blackfoot)"
Description:
Ethnography. Studies of Native Americans: a man wearing a bear skin with head and claws and the horns of a bull stands with his foot on the chest of a dying warrior, shaking a tamborine-like drum/ rattle adorned with the skins of frogs, rattlesnakes, a duck, fox pelts and feathers and holding a saw-edged spear. A woman and child sit nearby mourning and weeping, while the village encircles the group weeping and covering their mouths
Credit Line:
Purchased by the Society
Provenance:
The artist's collection; Francis Putnam Catlin, the artist's brother, serving as agent to George Henry Moore, acting on behalf of N-YHS
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
