Three young Tobos men

Catlin, George (1796-1872)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1854-1869
Height:
46.8 cm  (18 7/16 in.)
Width:
62.1 cm  (24 7/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on cardboard

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
    [Museum inv. no.: 1965.16.253]

Description

Man playing end-blown flute. --- From the artist's own catalog: Three young men, names not known; their ears ornamented with blocks of wood and rings. A very small tribe on the banks of Rio Negro, of Uruguay.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

End-blown flute [3940]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

4071