Two Sioux chiefs, a medicine man, a woman with child

Catlin, George (1796-1872)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1860s
Height:
44.2 cm  (17 3/8 in.)
Width:
61.0 cm  (24 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on cardboard

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
    [Museum inv. no.: 1965.16.343]

Description

Medicine man playing frame drum. --- From the artist's own catalog: Toh-to-wa-kón-da-pee (The Blue Medicine); a celebrated doctor and medicine [or mystery] man holding his drum and mysterious rattle in his hands.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Frame drum [2598]
Rattle [3036]

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

4072