This painting shows three individuals standing side by side. The individual on the left is shirtless, wearing a fur-like loincloth over fringed trousers and holding a long bow and an arrow. The person in the middle is wearing a cream-colored shawl over similar fringed trousers. The individual on the right is also shirtless and wears a fur-like skirt, but doesn’t appear to be wearing trousers. They have a pot or vessel on their head. All three of the people have light brown skin and dark hair. The two people on the left have long feathers adorning their hair and seem to have red markings on…
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Three Walla Walla Indians

George Catlin (American, 1796 - 1872)

1855/1869

Medium
oil on card mounted on paperboard
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 47.2 x 61.8 cm (18 9/16 x 24 5/16 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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