Chée-ah-ká-tchée, Wife of Nót-to-way

This oil-on canvas was created ca. 1835 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 Chée-ah-ká-tchée’s tribe, the Iroquois, as “one of the most numerous and powerful tribes that ever existed in the Northern regions of our country, and now one of the most completely annihilated.” (Smithsonian)