Osceola of Florida
date: label: Date made
content: 1838
name: label: depicted
content: Osceola
label: maker
content: Catlin, George
notes: label: Description
content: Hand color print, full length portrait of an Indian (Osceola) standing with his arm outstretched holding a rifle. He is standing beside a stone that identifies Osceola and the artist. Catlin and Osceola became friends after Osceola was imprisoned. Osceola, also known as Billy Powell, Asi-yahola in Creek, Rising Sun, Black Dring, and Tiger of the Everglades, was leader of the Seminole Indians. Born in 1804, his mother was Muscogee or Creek on her maternal side and European ancestry from her father. In 1835 he led resistance of the forced removal in what was called the Second Seminole War. He died in 1838 reportedly from malaria in Fort Moultrie federal prison in South Carolina after being tricked into surrendering under a truce flag. By the end of the 1830's, virtually all Seminoles were forced to leave their ancestral home in Florida for the west. Thousands died on the "Trail of Tears."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: depicted
content: Indians
label: Subject
content: Costume
label: Subject
content: Chronology: 1830-1839
label: Subject
content: Adornment
label: Subject
content: Portraits
label: depicted
content: Native Americans
label: depicted
content: Firearms
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Art
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.63.0186
label: catalog number
content: 63.0186
label: accession number
content: 242030
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 26 1/4 in x 19 1/2 in; 66.675 cm x 49.53 cm