The painting depicts a group of eight people, five adults and three children, on a grassy ground. Four are seated, with the other four standing behind them. On the left appear to be four men, two sitting and two standing. Three of them hold long rifles, while one holds a long, thin pipe. They all wear colorful headbands or headdresses adorned with long feathers over their long black hair. Next to them is a seated person without a headband who may be a woman. She has an infant in her arms, laying in a large basket with a handle. Behind the woman is another child who touches the woman's dark…
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Seminolee Indians, Prisoners at Fort Moultrie

George Catlin (American, 1796 - 1872)

1861/1869

Medium
oil on card mounted on paperboard
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 46.8 x 62.8 cm (18 7/16 x 24 3/4 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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