GEORGE CATLIN — EWERS 525 



INDIAN TRIBES OF THE FAR NORTHWEST 



Chinook 



Home territory Lower Columbia River, a region not visited by George 

 Catlin at time these paintings were executed. 



• ,, Catlin U.S.N. M. 



number number 

 Woman and child, showing how heads of children are 



flattened 147 386147 



Hee-doh'ge-ats, a young man 148 386148 



Nez Perce 



These two men visited St. Louis in 1832. Catlin painted them on 

 their return journey up the Missouri dressed in Sioux costumes. 



Catlin U.S.N. M. 



number number 



Rabbit's Skin Leggings 145 386145 



No Horns on His Head 146 386146 



UNIDENTIFIED PAINTINGS IN COLLECTION 



U.S.N.M. 

 Portraits nnmber 



*Unidentified man (probably Ojibwa, painted in Europe) 386321 



♦Unidentified man (probably member of a Southeastern tribe) _ 386322 



U.S.N.M 

 Scenes number 



♦Group of dancers (probably eastern marginal Great Plains) 386440 



♦Group of dancers in India ink (probably Ojibwa, in Europe) 386503 



OTHER MAJOR COLLECTIONS OF GEORGE CATLIN PICTURES 



1. O' Fallon Collection. Chicago Museum of Natural History. Chicago. 



35 oil paintings (majority Indian portraits 28" x 23") based on Catlin's 

 travels ante 1833. Collection purchased in 1894 from Miss Emily O'Fallon, 

 daughter of Catlin's friend, Maj. Benjamin O'Fallon, Indian Agent, These 

 may have been in collection of Catlin paintings seen by Prince Maximilian 

 and Carl Bodmer at O'Fallon's country home near St. Louis in 1833. Some 

 25 of these paintings are less finished renderings of same subjects in IT. S. 

 National Museum collection. All 35 paintings are described and illustrated 

 in Quimby, 1954. 

 2. Catlin's Cartoon Collection. American Museum of Natural History. New 

 York City. 



418 oils on cardboard of the 603 items in Catlin's Cartoon Collection ex- 

 hibited by him in New York in 1871. Includes many replicas exectited in 

 Europe of original Indian Gallery subjects. Portraits commonly full-length 

 and three or more to a painting. In addition there are many pictures based 

 on Catlin's travels in South America and North America west of the Rockies 

 in the 1850's, and a series of historical paintings interpreting La Salle's 

 explorations in America intended for King Louis Philippe of France. (Cat- 

 lin, 1871), 



