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Indians of North America -- Portraits

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Original portraits of Indian chiefs [art original] / by Samuel Seymour, official artist of Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, 1819-1920

 Collection
Identifier: 61-D
Scope and Contents

Portraits of six members of the 1821-1822 Native American delegation to Washington, DC. Probably copies of paintings by Charles Bird King lost in the 1865 Smithsonian fire. "These paintings are by neither Seymour nor King." Cf. note by William Sturtevant, Smithsonian Institution, May 1970. Caption and date handwritten on verso of each painting.

Dates: 1822