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Bi-éets-ee-cure, Very Sweet Man
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About this work
George Catlin painted this image of Very Sweet Man, a member of the Crow/Apsaalooke tribe, at Fort Union in 1832. The figure wears over his temples a pair of hair bows, decorated with beads imported from Venice in the 1830s by white traders on the Upper Missouri. (Truettner, The Natural Man Observed, 1979)
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Credit lineBi-éets-ee-cure, Very Sweet Man. 1832. 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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