Artist/Maker
George Catlin
(American, 1796 – 1872)
Medicine Man (Blackfoot): Plate 173
1866-1868
Graphite and black ink on prepared card
Overall: 18 3/8 x 24 in. (46.7 x 61 cm)
Purchase
1872.23.173
DescriptionA man wearing a bear skin with head and claws and the horns of a bull stands with his foot on the chest of a dying warrior, shaking a tambourine-like drum/ rattle adorned with the skins of frogs, rattlesnakes, a duck, fox pelts and feathers and holding a saw-edged spear. A woman and child sit nearby mourning and weeping, while the village encircles the group weeping and covering their mouths.SignedSigned at lower right inside image in black ink: "Geo. Catlin"
InscribedInscribed at upper center outside image in black ink over graphite: "Pl. 173. / Medecine Man (Blackfoot)"
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