Ah’-kay-ee-pix-en, Woman Who Strikes Many

George Catlin, Ah'-kay-ee-pix-en, Woman Who Strikes Many, 1832, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr., 1985.66.155
Copied George Catlin, Ah'-kay-ee-pix-en, Woman Who Strikes Many, 1832, oil on canvas, 29 x 24 in. (73.7 x 60.9 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr., 1985.66.155
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Artwork Details

Title
Ah’-kay-ee-pix-en, Woman Who Strikes Many
Artist
Date
1832
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
29 x 24 in. (73.7 x 60.9 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Mediums
Mediums Description
oil on canvas
Classifications
Keywords
  • Indian — Blackfoot
  • Portrait female — Woman Who Strikes Many
Object Number
1985.66.155
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1985.66.155

Artwork Description

George Catlin painted Woman Who Strikes Many, a member of the Blackfoot/Siksika tribe, in 1832 at Fort Union, two thousand miles northwest of St. Louis, in the heart of Blackfoot and Crow country. He later wrote that she wore “a beautiful dress of the mountain-goats’ skin, and her robe of the young buffalo’s hide.” (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 1, no. 5, 1841, reprint 1973; Truettner, The Natural Man Observed, 1979)