Mún-ne-o-ye, a Woman
Object Details
- Luce Center Label
- “I have visited forty-eight different tribes, the greater part of which I found speaking different languages, and containing in all 400,000 souls. I have brought home safe, and in good order, 310 portraits in oil, all painted in their native dress, and in their own wigwams . . . as well as a very extensive and curious collection of their costumes, and all their other manufactures, from the size of a wigwam down to the size of a quill or a rattle.” George Catlin probably painted this Iowa woman at Fort Leavenworth (in today’s Kansas) in 1832. (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 1, no. 1, 1841; reprint 1973)
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Date
- 1832
- Object number
- 1985.66.262
- Artist
- George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872
- Sitter
- Mun Ne O Ye
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 29 x 24 in. (73.7 x 60.9 cm)
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Topic
- Indian\Iowa
- Portrait female
- Record ID
- saam_1985.66.262
