
“I visited the wigwam of [Great Chief] … several times,” George Catlin wrote, “and saw his four modest little wives seated around the fire, where all seemed to harmonize very well; … I selected [Bending Willow] … for her portrait, and painted it … in a very pretty dress of deer skins, and covered with a young buffalo’s robe, which was handsomely ornamented, and worn with much grace and pleasing effect.” The artist painted this portrait at a Ponca village in 1832. (Catlin, Letters and Notes , vol. 1, no. 26, 1841; reprint 1973)
- Title
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Mong-shóng-sha, Bending Willow, Wife of Great Chief
- Artist
- Date
- 1832
- Location
- Dimensions
- 29 x 24 in. (73.7 x 60.9 cm)
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- oil on canvas
- Classifications
- Keywords
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- Portrait female – Bending Willow
- Ethnic – Indian – Ponca
- Object Number
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1985.66.98
- Palette
- Linked Open Data
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