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Asset ID 15152

Title Two Comanche Girls

Description The scene, painted by George Catlin at a Comanche village in 1834, shows “the wigwam of the Chief, his dogs, and his five children.” The artist also described the village as “six or eight hundred skin-covered lodges, made of poles and buffalo skins, in the manner precisely as those of the Sioux and other Missouri tribes … This village with its thousands of wild inmates, with horses and dogs, and wild sports and domestic occupations, presents a most curious scene; and the manners and looks of the people, a rich subject for the brush and the pen.” (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 2, no. 42, 1841, reprint 1973, and 1848 Catalogue, Catlin’s Indian Gallery, SAAM online exhibition)

Agent (Role) Catlin, George, 1796-1872 (Artist), Kirschner, Julius (Copy photographer)

Date 1834 (created), 1912-04 (photographed)

Artwork/Object Type Paintings

Collection/Work Relation AMNH Special Collections, Photographic Negative Collection, 5 x 7: 15152

External Resource Smithsonian American Art Museum

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