Bi-ÃÂ©ets-ee-cure, Very Sweet Man, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Bi-ÃÂ©ets-ee-cure, Very Sweet Man

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

George Catlin

Creation Date: 1832
Type: Painting
Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 29 x 24 in. (73.7 x 60.9 cm)

Object #: 4426
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.

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Linked Data URI: saam:object/id/1985.66.169
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