Dance to the berdache - Sauk and Fox

Catlin, George (1796-1872)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1857-1869
Height:
47.0 cm  (18 1/2 in.)
Width:
63.2 cm  (24 7/8 in.)
overall measurement of mounted oval image
Technique / Medium:
oil on card mounted on paperboard

Additional titles

Dance to the berdache - Saukie

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
    Paul Mellon Collection[Museum inv. no.: 1965.16.133]

Description

Fourteen men dancing with one woman (with no visible musical accompaniment).

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

RIdIM/RCMI inventory of music iconography, no. 1: National Gallery of Art, Washington , compiled by Terence Ford, Andrew Green and Emilio Ros-Fábregas (New York : Research Center for Musical Iconography, 1986). OCLC 21021340. RILM 1986-219.

RIdIM record id

1819