Hee-doh'ge-ats, a Young Man

This oil-on canvas was created ca. 1838 by American artist George Catlin (1796-1872). Catlin’s collection of Native American portraits includes over 400 paintings created during his travels in the American West during the 1830s and 1840s. In his notes, Catlin described Hee-doh'ge-ats as a “Chinook boy, of fifteen or eighteen years of age” whose head had never been flattened, as was customary for high-status members of some Chinook tribes in the Pacific Northwest. (Smithsonian)