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Catalog Data

Artist:
Catlin, George  Search this
Type:
Paintings
Exhibition Catalogs
Date:
1853
Notes:
Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 462
Omagua. A small fishing tribe, south bank of the Amazon, near Nauta. 1853. Cartoon No. 462. (--); a medicine man, his ears slit and elongated, and he wears at times a huge boulder of flint attached to his under lip. [P. 72; exhibited under heading: "South American Portraits."]
Catalogue Descriptive and Instructive of Catlin's Indian Cartoons. Portraits, Types, and Customs. 600 Paintings in Oil, with 20,000 full length figures illustrating their various Games, Religious Ceremonies, and other Customs, and 27 Canvas Paintings of Lasalle's Discoveries. New York: Baker & Godwin, Printers, Printing-House Square, 1871.
Topic:
Portrait male  Search this
Ethnic--Omagua  Search this
Control number:
AECI 05690751
Data Source:
Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_aeci_105112