Artwork Details
- Title
- Wichita Lodge, Thatched with Prairie Grass
- Artist
- Date
- 1834-1835
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 24 x 29 in. (60.9 x 73.7 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- oil on canvas
- Classifications
- Keywords
- Figure group
- Indian
- Architecture Exterior — domestic — hut
- Object Number
- 1985.66.492
Artwork Description
George Catlin carefullt noted the communities he found while accompanying a military expedition into Indian Territory in today’s Oklahoma. “We found here a very numerous village, containing some five or six hundred wigwams, all made of long prairie grass, thatched over poles which are fastened in the ground and bent in at the top.” (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 2, no. 43, 1841; reprint 1973)