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I-o-wáy, One of Black Hawk's Principal Warriors
1832
George Catlin
Born: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 1796
Died: Jersey City, New Jersey 1872
oil on canvas
29 x 24 in. (73.7 x 60.9 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
1985.66.12
Smithsonian American Art Museum
3rd Floor, Luce Foundation Center
“I-o-way (the Ioway), one of Black Hawk's principal warriors; his body curiously ornamented with his ‘war-paint.’” (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 2, no. 56, 1841; reprint 1973)
For more information about this work visit the Luce Foundation Center.
Keywords
Ethnic - Indian - Sauk and Fox
Ethnic - Indian - Sauk and Fox
Portrait male - Ioway
Portrait male - Ioway - bust
painting
paint - oil
fabric - canvas
metal - aluminum - support added
About George Catlin
Born: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 1796 Died: Jersey City, New Jersey 1872
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