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Wichita Lodge, Thatched with Prairie Grass
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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)
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Credit lineWichita Lodge, Thatched with Prairie Grass. 1834-1835. 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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