Apauly-Tustennuggee
1825
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 77.5 × 64.3 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-129428
From 1824 to 1830, Thomas McKenney served as US Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Washington, DC, and during his tenure developed a government collection of portraits of prominent Native Americans who visited the city as delegates of their tribes. McKenney commissioned a well-known Washington portraitist, Charles Bird King, to paint the leaders of about twenty Native American tribes. This paint…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution
Registry history
- 1825 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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