Jú-ah-kís-gaw,+Woman+With+Her+Child+in+a+Cradle

Date: 1835
 * [[image:http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=http://americanart.si.edu/images/1985/1985.66.186_1a.jpg&max=460 width="322" height="393" link="@http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=4186"]] || Title: **Jú-ah-kís-gaw, Woman With Her Child in a Cradle**

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

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

Accession: 1985.66.186 || George Catlin described this work as “the portrait of a Chippeway woman. . . with her child in its crib or cradle. . . [the umbilicus] hanging before the child's face for its supernatural protector. . . This woman's dress was mostly made of civilized manufactures, but curiously decorated and ornamented according to Indian taste.” (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 2, no. 51, 1841; reprint 1973)
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