Hee-doh'ge-ats, a Young Man
1837-1839
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 73.7 × 60.9 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-135944
George Catlin described this youth as a “Chinook boy, of fifteen or eighteen years of age” whose head had never been flattened. The young man’s true identity has been the subject of some speculation. A similar image of a Chinook boy appears in McKenney and Hall’s three-volume study, The Indian Tribes of North America (1933). That boy (or young man), whose name was Stumanu, toured Atlantic Coast c…
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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