Toh-kí-e-to, Stone With Horns, a Chief
1832
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 73.7 × 60.9 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-135406
George Catlin painted Stone with Horns at Fort Pierre, on his Missouri River trip in 1832. Stone with Horns was a chief of the Yankton Nakota, and Catlin described him in his travel account, Letters and Notes: “Toh-ki-e-to . . . [is] reputed the principal and most eloquent orator of the nation. The neck, and breast, and shoulders of this man, were curiously tattooed, by pricking in gunpowder and …
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Registry history
- 1832 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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