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Wah-chee-háhs-ka, Man Who Puts All Out of Doors
George Catlin (born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872)
1835
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 29 x 24 in. (73.7 x 60.9 cm)
- Culture
- Indians of North America
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Man Who Puts All Out of Doors was a member of the Winnebago tribe, and George Catlin described him as “the largest man of the tribe, with rattle-snakes' skins on his arms, and his war-club in his hand.” (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 2, no. 52, 1841; reprint 1973)
