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Collections and Projects

  • Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache Texts
  • George Catlin Indian Paintings Collection from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

    George Catlin (1796-1872) abandoned a law career to pursue his interests in art. In 1830 he met William Clark in Saint Louis and with him visited tribes living near the Mississippi River, and in 1832 he traveled up the Missouri River to Fort Union, North Dakota. His portraits of the Mandans, with whom he stayed in 1832, are today among his best-known works. By 1834, after crossing the southern plains to paint the Comanche, Catlin had visited more western tribes than had any other artist of his day. This image collection contains over 400 portraits of Native Americans and cultural documentation landscapes from the exhibition (and accompanying catalog) "George Catlin and his Indian Gallery," organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2002. Of particular note is the authoritative identification of the tribal affiliations of the portrait subjects.

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Miscellaneous Texts and Historical Documents

 

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