Butte de Mort, Sioux Burial Ground, Upper Missouri
1837-1839
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 50.9 × 69.4 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-135391
George Catlin probably sketched this image on his Missouri River voyage in 1832, but did not produce a finished painting for several years. In his 1848 Catalogue, Catlin noted that the French called this Sioux burial ground Butte de Mort, or “Hill of Death,” and that the Indians regarded the site “with great dread and superstition. There are several thousand buffalo and human skulls, perfectly bl…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Registry history
- 1837-1839 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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