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Ah'-sho-cole, Rotten Foot, a Noted Warrior
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“I have visited forty-eight different tribes, the greater part of which I found speaking different languages, and containing in all 400,000 souls. I have brought home safe, and in good order, 310 portraits in oil, all painted in their native dress, and in their own wigwams . . . as well as a very extensive and curious collection of their costumes, and all their other manufactures, from the size of a wigwam down to the size of a quill or a rattle.” George Catlin painted portraits of the Wichita, including Rotten Foot, at a Comanche village in 1834. (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 1, no. 1, 1841; reprint 1973)
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Credit lineAh'-sho-cole, Rotten Foot, a Noted Warrior. 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.
