Buffalo+Hunt+under+the+Wolf-skin+Mask

Date: 1832-1833
 * [[image:http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=http://americanart.si.edu/images/1985/1985.66.414_1a.jpg&max=460 width="374" height="311" link="@http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=3972"]] || Title: **Buffalo Hunt under the Wolf-skin Mask**

Artist: **George Catlin** Born: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 1796 Died: Jersey City, New Jersey 1872

Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 24 x 29 in. (60.9 x 73.7 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.

Accession: 1985.66.414 || “The poor buffaloes have their enemy man, besetting and besieging them at all times of the year, and in all the modes that man in his superior wisdom has been able to devise for their destruction. They struggle in vain to evade his deadly shafts, when he dashes amongst them over the plains on his wild horse---they plunge into the snow-drifts where they yield themselves an easy prey to their destroyers, and they also stand unwittingly and behold him, unsuspected under the skin of a white wolf, insinuating himself and his fatal weapons into close company, when they are peaceably grazing on the level prairies, and shot down before they are aware of their danger.” George Catlin made this sketch on the Upper Missouri in 1832. (Catlin, //Letters and Notes//, vol. 1, no. 31, 1841; reprint 1973)
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Artist George Catlin: Painter Of American Indian Portraits - Wisconsin Public Radio Campfire Stories with George Catlin
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