Sha-có-pay
| Sha-có-pay | |
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| Artist | George Catlin |
| Year | 1832[1] |
| Medium | Oil on canvas[1] |
| Dimensions | 73.7 cm × 60.9 cm (29.0 in × 24.0 in)[1] |
| Location | Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. |
Sha-có-pay is an oil-on-canvas painting from life by American artist
Plains Ojibwe.[1]
Catlin traveled throughout Western
Fort Union in 1832.[2]
Catlin said:
The chief of that part of the Ojibbeway tribe who inhabit these northern regions … is a man of huge size; with dignity of manner, and pride and vanity, just about in proportion to his bulk. He sat for his portrait in a most beautiful dress, fringed with scalp locks in profusion; which he had snatched, in his early life from his enemies' heads, and now wears as proud trophies and proofs of what his arm has accomplished in battles with his enemies. His shirt of buckskin is beautifully embroidered and painted in curious hieroglyphics, the history of his battles and charts of his life.[3]
References
- ^ a b c d "Sha-có-pay, The Six, Chief of the Plains Ojibwa". Smithsonian.
- ISBN 978-0-87351-311-1.
- Harvard College Library. 1941.
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