Public Domain, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Mah-to-toh-pa, Four Bears, Second Chief in Full Dress
George Catlin • 1832
Portrait of the celebrated Mandan chief Mato-Tope in full ceremonial dress, wearing a painted buffalo robe depicting his heroic deeds. Catlin greatly admired this chief, calling him “the most extraordinary man in the nation.” Mato-Tope died in the devastating 1837 smallpox epidemic.
Scene Location
Mandan Village, near Washburn, North Dakota
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