Pah-too-ca-ra, Kut-sa-ra, Pshan-shaw
Artist
George Catlin
(American, 1796 - 1872)
Date1852
Mediumpencil and watercolor on cardboard
DimensionsSheet: 17 3/8 x 22 3/4 inches (44.1 x 57.8 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number11.77.2.I
ClassificationsPaper
DescriptionPages are now separate. Original worn buckrum binding, black leather corners and spine, gold lines. Encased in a red portfolio.Label TextIn the 1830s, Catlin traveled to the West to record and document native peoples. He painted nearly 500 portraits and scenes of life. He used his paintings to make other later versions. Here, he portrayed three people of the Arikara, or Riccarree, tribe. He described the two men as warriors. On the left is Kut-sa-ra or He Laughs. Next is Pah-too-ca-ra, or He Who Strikes. On the right is Pshan-shaw, or Sweet Scented Grass, a female wearing “a beautiful dress made of the mountain sheeps skins.” Today, the Arikara are part of the Three Affiliated Tribes, or the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation.
ProvenancePurchased June 11, 1956 through (Charles Eberstadt, Edward Eberstadt & Sons, New York, New York) by H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; bequeathed September 2, 1965 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art
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