NABU-NAA-KEE-SHICK or The One Side of the Sky, A Chippewa Chief, from The Aboriginal Portfolio
1835
Medium
Graphic Arts-Print
Classification
Graphic Arts-Print
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of H. Lyman Sayen to his nation
Accession Number
1973.167.20
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold *Nabu-naa-kee-shick, or The One Side of the, A Chippewa* (1835), a striking lithographic print by James Otto Lewis part of the pioneering *Aboriginal Portfolio*. This full-length portrait captures the dignified presence of a Chippewa leader in traditional dress, his name evoking the vast skies of the American Midwest. Lewis, an early 19th-century artist traveler, sketched Native American delegates during significant gatherings like the 1826 Treaty of St Peters, transforming these live sittings into one of the first published collections of Indigenous portraits. Printed as a graphic art...