The image shows a group of six people seated inside a conical tent. One person, wearing a feathered headdress and traditional attire, sits at the center. Other individuals are seated around them, dressed modestly. There is a fire with a cooking pot, wooden posts supporting the tent, animal skins on the ground, and more people seated against the tent wall. Light filters in from an opening in the roof.
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Catlin Feasted by the Mandan Chief

George Catlin (American, 1796 - 1872)

1861/1869

Medium
oil on card mounted on paperboard
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 46.3 x 62.4 cm (18 1/4 x 24 9/16 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Paul Mellon Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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