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Ish-a-ró-yeh, He Who Carries a Wolf, a Distinguished Brave
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George Catlin painted He Who Carries a Wolf at the Comanche village in 1834. Ish-a-ró-yeh was a man of some standing in the tribe who, Catlin later wrote, “piloted the dragoons to the Camanchee village, and received a handsome rifle from Colonel Dodge for so doing.” He was named “from the circumstance of his carrying a medicine-bag made of the skin of a wolf; he holds a whip in his hand.” (Catlin, 1848 Catalogue, Catlin’s Indian Gallery, SAAM online exhibition; Truettner, The Natural Man Observed, 1979)
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Credit lineIsh-a-ró-yeh, He Who Carries a Wolf, a Distinguished Brave. 1834. George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.. CC0.
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