Tenskwatawa
c. 1830-33
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 77.2 × 62.9 × 2.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-121550
Tenskwatawa, the foremost religious leader of the Shawnee, preached a return to traditional ways. Possessed with great oratorical skills, he built a large movement, and in 1808 he established Prophet’s Town in the Indiana Territory. He bitterly opposed territorial governor William Henry Harrison’s Treaty of Fort Wayne (1809), a dubious agreement in which some Native leaders ceded three million ac…
Provenance
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Registry history
- c. 1830-33 — Recorded in the collection of National Portrait Gallery
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