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| Keywords: Ten-sqúat-a-way.jpg The Prophet Brother of w Tecumseh The ˜Shawnee Prophet ™ is perhaps one of the most remarkable men who has flourished on these frontiers for some time past This man is brother of the famous Tecumseh and quite equal in his medicines or mysteries to what his brother was in arms; he was blind in his right eye and in his right hand he was holding his ˜medicine fire ™ and his ˜sacred string of beads ™ in the other With these mysteries he made his way through most of the North Western tribes enlisting warriors wherever he went to assist Tecumseh in effecting his great scheme of forming a confederacy of all the Indians on the frontier to drive back the whites and defend the Indians ™ rights; which he told them could never in any other way be protected he had actually enlisted some eight or ten thousand who were sworn to follow him home; and in a few days would have been on their way with him had not a couple of his political enemies from his own tribe defeated his plans by pronouncing him an imposter This no doubt has been a very shrewd and influential man but circumstances have destroyed him and he now lives respected but silent and melancholy in his tribe Records show that the Prophet was living west of the Mississippi by 1830 which suggests that Catlin painted this portrait at Fort Leavenworth in today ™s Kansas on his earliest journey to the West Catlin Letters and Notes vol 2 no 49 1841 reprint 1973; Truettner The Natural Man Observed 1979 1830 painting Institution http //americanart si edu/search/search_artworks1 cfm StartRow 1 format long db all LastName FirstName Title Accession 1985 66 279 Keyword Public Domain other versions PD-art-100 PD-US Portraits by George Catlin Tenskwatawa 1830 portrait paintings from the United States Male 19th-century portrait paintings of sitting men at half length 1830 Gorgets in portrait paintings 1830 Paintings of Native Americans Septum piercings in art | ||||
