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George Catlin:The White Cloud Head-Chief of the Iowas1844-45
This portrait was among those exhibited by Catlin at the Paris Salon of 1846. The novelist and critic George Sand: “Robed in his most splendid costume, his face gleaming with precious vermillion paint, he sits, like the prince he is, among his proud acolytes, solemnly smoking his pipe. [He is] a modern Jason.” (in Farisa Khalid: George Catlin, The White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas at https://smarthistory.org/
