A Mandan Medicine Man
George Catlin · 1861/1869 · oil on card mounted on paperboard
Public domain
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About this picture
A Mandan Medicine Man is a public-domain painting by George Catlin, dated 1861/1869. Oil on card mounted on paperboard. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“A Mandan Medicine Man” (1861/1869) is one of the portraits or ceremony pictures Catlin made on those travels and kept as part of his gallery.
About the artist
George Catlin (1796–1872) traveled in the 1830s to paint portraits and ceremonies of Native nations of the Plains. He showed the pictures together as a gallery.
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