The collection languished for years in Harrison's steam boiler factory, and Catlin again lobbied the U.S. government to purchase his Indian collection to no avail. |
A feast inside a Mandan lodge, art by George Catlin, showing the four pillars supporting the roof and the smoke hole, ca. |
Unable to sell his Indian collection to Congress, Catlin went to Europe and was feted for a time for his exhibited work. |
Catlin says that the tribe of Mandans raise a great deal of corn. |
Unabashed feminist author Catlin Moran lampooned women who did not identify as feminists in her book, How To Be a Woman. |
Catlin died in 1872 and is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, but even that is fogged in doubt. |