Distant View of the Mandan Village
1832
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 28.5 × 36.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-140348
The Mandan village near Fort Clark in present-day North Dakota was a hub of commerce where agricultural products and manufactured goods obtained from whites were traded for furs, horses, and other commodities with Plains tribes. Though Catlin described them as “entirely in a state of primitive wildness,” the Mandan had been in direct recorded contact with Europeans since the 1730s; French and Spa…
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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