Indigenous Portraits

Vibrant oil portraits capturing Indigenous leaders and figures in traditional attire. The artworks reflect cultural pride and heritage, characterized by rich colors and distinctive accessories.

Native American from North California, United States of America, from a drawing by H Not, illustration by Jules Gaildrau from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 538, Volume XXI, June 18, 1853.

Bón-són-gee, New Fire, a Band Chief. oil on canvas. Date: 1834. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

O'n-daig, The Crow, a Dandy. oil on canvas. Date: 1836. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Camanchee Chief, His Wife, and a Warrior. Dated: 1861. Dimensions: overall: 45.7 x 60.9 cm (18 x 24 in.). Medium: oil on card mounted on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: George Catlin.

Né-hee-ó-ee-wóo-tis, Wolf on the Hill, Chief of the Tribe. oil on canvas. Date: 1832. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Kotz-a-tó-ah, Smoked Shield, a Distinguished Warrior. oil on canvas. Date: 1834. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

George Catlin 001 The White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowastitle QS:P1476,en:The White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas label QS:Len,The White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas label QS:Lde,Die weiße Wolke, der Häuptling der Iowas

Manado native, Sulawesi island. Celebes, Indonesia, Asia. Old engraving illustration, The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russell Wallace

Apache Indian. oil on canvas. Date: ca. 1893. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

George Catlin, Apachee Chief and Three Warriors, 1855 1869 Apachee Chief and Three Warriors

Native American from North California, United States of America, from a drawing by H Not, illustration by Jules Gaildrau from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 538, Volume XXI, June 18, 1853.

Ee-áh-sá-pa, Black Rock, a Two Kettle Chief. oil on canvas. Date: 1832. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Spokan Chief, Two Warriors, and a Boy. Dated: 1855/1869. Dimensions: overall: 47.3 x 61.3 cm (18 5/8 x 24 1/8 in.). Medium: oil on card mounted on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: George Catlin.

George Catlin, Three Celebrated Ball Players Choctaw, Sioux and Ojibbeway, 1861 Three Celebrated Ball Players - Choctaw, Sioux and Ojibbeway

Black Hawk and the Prophet - Saukie. Dated: 1861/1869. Dimensions: overall: 46.4 x 62.4 cm (18 1/4 x 24 9/16 in.). Medium: oil on card mounted on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: George Catlin.

Tullock-chish-ko, He Who Drinks the Juice of the Stone, the most distinguished ball player of the Choctaw nation, with his sticks and a tail made of white horsehair or feathers, and a mane of dyed horsehair on his shoulders. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, London, 1841.

I-an-be-w'ah-dick, Male Caribou, a Brave. oil on canvas. Date: 1836. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Tul-lock-chísh-ko, Drinks the Juice of the Stone, in Ball-player's Dress. oil on canvas. Date: 1834. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Máh-to-tóh-pa, Four Bears, Second Chief in Mourning. Date/Period: 1832. Painting. Oil on canvas Oil on canvas. Height: 736.60 mm (29 in); Width: 609.60 mm (24 in). Author: George Catlin.

George Catlin, Lengua Medicine Man with Two Warriors, 1854 1869 Lengua Medicine Man with Two Warriors

Two Apachee Warriors and a Woman. Dated: 1855/1869. Dimensions: overall: 46.7 x 62.2 cm (18 3/8 x 24 1/2 in.). Medium: oil on card mounted on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: George Catlin.

Ball Players, 1844, George Catlin, American, 1796 - 1872, 12 1/16 x 17 13/16 in. (30.64 x 45.24 cm) (image, sheet), Hand-colored lithograph, United States, 19th century

Ka-bés-hunk, He Who Travels Everywhere, a Warrior. oil on canvas. Date: 1835. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

The Patagons (or Tehuelche), 1827, illustration from South America by Giulio Ferraro, Argentina 19th Century.

A Shoshonee Indian Smoking. Date: ca. 1860s. pen and ink and watercolor on paper mounted on paperboard. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Wah-pón-jee-a, The Swan, a Warrior. oil on canvas. Date: 1830. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Woman of the Caroline Islands. Queen of the Caroline Islands holding a leaf parasol, her limbs tattooed. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature, The South Sea Islands, Ackermann, 1824. After an illustration by Jacques Arago in Louis de Freycinet's Voyage of the Uranie, 1820.

Three Cheyenne Warriors. Dated: 1861/1869. Dimensions: overall: 45.7 x 61.7 cm (18 x 24 5/16 in.). Medium: oil on card mounted on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: George Catlin.

. .

" A New Zealand Warrior, & his Wife, in the Dress &c, of that Country". Engraving From A journal of a voyage to the South Seas : in His Majesty's ship, the Endeavour from the papers of Sydney Parkinson, embellished with views and designs, delineated by the Author, and engraved by capital artists. 1773

Dancer in Full Costume, 1993, Jerome Kleine, (b.20th. C/American), Oil

Indio de Nayon. oil on canvas. Date: before 1914. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Pet-A-Le-Shar-Ro, Pawnee Chief, Portrait, McKenney & Hall Lithograph from an 1821 Painting by Charles Bird King

Young Gonaqua man, with bow and arrows, of the South African Khoikhoi (Hottentot). From Francois Le Vaillants Second Voyage into the Interior of Africa. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handcoloured by Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzognos Collection of the Most Interesting Voyages (Raccolta de Viaggi Piu Interessanti), Milan, 1815-1817.

George Catlin, Four Angustura Indians, 1854 1869 Four Angustura Indians

Laura Bilodeau, Tradesman's Sign, c 1941 Tradesman's Sign

Coffee being transported to town, Brazil, 1822-28 watercolour

Coloured illustration dated 1827, depicting west African natives in a village setting

Kishkekosh, a Fox brave, illustration

Indio salvaje de California. Grabado en color de 1805.

George Catlin (July 26, 1796 December 23, 1872) was an American painter, author and traveler who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West.Boy Chief (1843) from the Ojibbeway tribe.

Kee-mo-rá-nia, No English, a Dandy. oil on canvas. Date: 1830. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Nubian. oil on canvas. Date: ca. 1893. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

A Coromantyn Free Negro, or Ranger, armed, 1793, Stedman's 'Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition', engraving, Keynes 1921, no. 111, State (i), William Blake (artist) British, 1757 - 1827, John Gabriel Stedman (artist after) British, 1744 - 1797

Masai Herdsman John Newcomb, Watercolor, 2008

In this illustration dating to 1909, a Native American artist is painting in sign language, on buckskin, the story of a battle with American soldiers. When exhibited at the National Academy, this picture was considered one of the most important paintings of the year. See if you can find the sign for the Indians, the United States Cavalry, and the officer in command. The dots the historian/artist is making are 'bullets.'' He has also depicted arrows.

Sioux chiefs: warrior Tehan-dee, Tobacco 92, chief of the Yanc-ton band Toh-ki-ee-to, Stone with Horns, with neck and arms tattooed in gunpowder and vermilion 93. Sioux daughter of Black Rock, Wi-looh-tah-eeh-tchah-ta-mah-nee, Red Thing that Touches in Marching 94, and Tehon-su-mons-ka, Sand Bar 95, wife of a French trader Chardon. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, London, 1841.

George Catlin, Riccarree Chief and His Wife, 1861 1869 Riccarree Chief and His Wife

Night Signals. Eanger Irving Couse (1866-1936). Oil on canvas. 61 x 73.5cm

Medicine Man Curing a Patient, 1850, Seth Eastman, American, 1808-1875, 7 7/8 × 6 3/4 in. (20 × 17.15 cm) (image)7 3/4 × 6 11/16 in. (19.69 × 16.99 cm) (sheet), Watercolor, United States, 19th century, U.S. Army Captain Seth Eastman was a trained artist who served twice on the frontier at Minnesotas Fort Snelling, from 1830 to 1832 and again from 1841 to 1848. His extensive firsthand, peaceful encounters with Native Americans gave him extraordinary opportunities to observe their customs and practices, which he documented in his art. He became known as the 'pictorial historian of the Indian.

Shé-de-ah, Wild Sage, a Wichita Woman. oil on canvas. Date: 1834. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Láh-shee, The Licker, called "Creek Billy". oil on canvas. Date: 1838. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Badende Javanese woman, Ernest Alfred Hardouin, c. 1837 - c. 1854 drawing Batavia paper. pencil. watercolor (paint) brush slavery; serfs and the enslaved

Handsome Morning -- A Dakota. Date/Period: 1921. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 183 cm (72 in); Width: 91.6 cm (36 in). Author: Harry C. Edwards.

A portrait of Hiawatha. Date: First published: 1855

Costumes de Différents Pays, 'Femmes Indiennes de la Guyane'. L. F. Labrousse (France, Bordeaux, active late 18th century)Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810). France, circa 1797. Prints; engravings. Hand-tinted engraving on paper

Last of the Mohicans, N.C. Wyeth

Californian Digger” Indians. Artist: Unknown

Maffet Ledger: Drawing ca. 1874-81 Southern and Northern Cheyenne. Maffet Ledger: Drawing. Southern and Northern Cheyenne. ca. 1874-81. Graphite, watercolor, and crayon on paper. United States, Oklahoma. Paper-Drawings

Maffet Ledger: Drawing. Culture: Southern and Northern Cheyenne. Dimensions: H. 11 3/4 × W. 5 1/4 in. (29.8 × 13.3 cm). Date: ca. 1874-81. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

HISTORIAS INDIAS NUEVA ESPAÑA. Author: DIEGO DURAN DIEGO (1537-1588). Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Stumanu, Flathead Warrior, Lithograph, circa 1800's

Chef de Bororenos partant pour une attaque.. Debret, Jean Baptiste (1768-1848). Prints, Illustrations. 1834 - 1839. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Brazil , Social life and customs, Mountains, Warriors, Indians , Kings and rulers, Indian weapons , South America, Indians of South America

CODEX TRUJILLO DEL PERU - BOOK II E 44 - BLACK - WATERCOLOR - 18TH CENTURY. Author: MARTINEZ COMPAÑON BALTASAR. Location: PALACIO REAL-BIBLIOTECA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Guard Amazon of the King of Dahomey, today Benin, Illistration from 1880, Historic, digital reproduction of an original 19th century original

Samson and His Wife James Tissot (1836-1902 French) Jewish Museum, New York City

Theodore Valerio, A Dalmatian Shepherd, c. 1850-55, watercolor and pencil on wove paper.

Ketchwayo, King of the Zulu, red shiner (1853), Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown

Payta Kootha Peter Duval. , 1836. Hand-colored lithograph on paper American Art 1836

George Catlin, Osceola and Four Seminolee Indians, 1861 1869 Osceola and Four Seminolee Indians

Indian Shell-cutter holding the shell with his feet and cutting with blade mounted on handle, Hand-coloured engraving published Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1822

Cinque: The Chief of the AmistadCaptives. Artist: John Sartain, American, born Britain, 1808-1897 After: Nathaniel Jocelyn, American, 1796-1881

Kitch-Ee-I-Aa-Ba or the Big Buck, a Chippewa Chief James Otto Lewis (American, 1799 - 1858). , print issued May 1835. Lithograph with watercolor on paper, Sheet: 12 5/16 x 8 13/16 in. (31.3 x 22.4 cm). American Art print issued May 1835

Papuan man of Dory Harbour, West Papua. He wears face tattoos, an ornamental comb in his hair, necklace, harness, armlets, and yellow breechcloth. Papou de Havre Dorey (Nouvelle Guinee). Adapted from an illustration by Victor Adam in dUrvilles Voyage of the Astrolabe. Handcoloured woodcut by AC and Mercier from Auguste Wahlen's Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde, (Manners, Customs and Costumes of all the People of the World) Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1845.

Ball-play of the Choctaw--ball up. oil on canvas. Date: 1834-1835. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

The wife of a Malian man. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.

Indian, here a man from the Anti tribe, America, illustration from 1880 / Indianer, hier ein Mann aus dem Stamm der Anti, Amerika, Illustration aus 1880, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.

Man of Guardafui, Somalia 1, son of the Dola (governor) of Mousa, Somalia 2, and Beja man of Suakin, Sudan, with hair in dreads 3. Samalien, jeune seigneur Arabe, Arabe Suakin. Natives of the Red Sea. From Voyages and Travels by George Annesley, Viscount Valentia, and artist Henry Salt, 1809. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1810. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

Ngalyema, chief of Kintamo (a village on the southern bank of the Congo River). Portrait. Engraving by Pedro Mullor. El Congo y la Creacion del Estado Independiente de este nombre. Historia de los Trabajos y Exploraciones Verificados (The Congo and the Founding of its Free State. A Story of Work and Exploration), by Henry M. Stanley. Edited in Barcelona, ca.1890. Spain.

'Whipping of a female black slave. From Stedman ''Journal of Five Years Expedition against the Rebelling Blacks of Surinam 1772-77'' London 1793. Hand-coloured engraving.

Walda Kyros, an Abyssinian, native of Shoa, and Gabra Eugziabher, a native of Adowa in Tigre. Handcoloured lithograph after d'Abbadie from James Cowles Prichard's Natural History of Man, Balliere, London, 1855.

OCEANIA. MICRONESIA. INDIGENA DE KOROR (una de las islas de Palau) a bordo de un buque europeo. Grabado del año 1882.

Captain Cold, or Ut-ha-wah (Onondaga, ca.1770-1845). Artist: William John Wilgus, American, 1819-1853

BIARD, Franois Auguste (1799-1882). The abolition of slavery. 27th April 1848. 1849. Detail. Oil on canvas. FRANCE. ëLE-DE-FRANCE. YVELINES. Versailles. National Museum of Versailles.

George Catlin, Two Choctaw Indians, 1861 1869 Two Choctaw Indians

Three Creek Indians. Dated: 1861/1869. Dimensions: overall: 45.6 x 61.8 cm (17 15/16 x 24 5/16 in.). Medium: oil on card mounted on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: George Catlin.

Walda Kyros, an Abyssinian, native of Shoa, and Gabra Eugziabher, a native of Adowa in Tigre From: The natural history of Man by James Cowles Prichard prints, etchings, works on paper

A slave rebellion on a slaveship, 1833, by Edouard Antoine Renard (1802-1857), oil on canvas. Slavery, Caribbean, 19th century.

Ancient classical masks: Greek tragic masks 1,2,3,8, Greek comic masks 7,10, and Roman Bacchic masks 4,5,6,9. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802.

Florida residents take their crops by boat to the storehouses, engraving from Admiranda Narratio (the discourse of the marvelous) by Theodore De Bry, North America, 16th Century.

The Mint, Sha-ko-ka, a Mandan or Numakiki girl. A very pretty and modest girl, 12 years of age, with grey hair peculiar to the Mandan nation. Handcoloured lithograph after a painting by George Catlin from James Cowles Prichard's Natural History of Man, Balliere, London, 1855.

Old portrait of Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau (1815 - 1883)king of Fiji islands. Melanesia, Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. Voyage to the Great Viti, great equinoctial ocean by John Denis Macdonald 1855. Old 19th century engraving from Le Tour du Monde 1860

'Egyptian Portrait', 1881. Artist: Unknown

Territorial duels between Botocudo tribesmen including wrestling and stick fighting to decide hunting ground violation. River Belmonte, Bahia, Brazil, South America. Illustration from Maximilian von Wied-Neuwied's "Travels in Brazil, 1815-1817." Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen.

Jean-Leon Gerome; French; Vesoul 1824-1904 Paris Bashi-Bazouk; 1868-69; Oil on canvas.

of 2