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| Keywords: Cól-lee, a Band Chief.jpg en Cól-lee a Band Chief 1834 http //americanart si edu/images/1985/1985 66 285_1b jpg creator George Catlin 1834 Public Domain An aged and dignified chief ¦ This man ¦ as well as a very great proportion of the Cherokee population has a mixture of red and white blood in his veins of which in this instance the first seems decidedly to predominate Letters and Notes vol 2 p 119 pl 217 Painted at Fort Gibson in 1834 Catlin refers to the subject as Jol-lee in Letters and Notes The oil portrait has been modeled with a vivacity and assurance that almost equals number 284 but the Gilcrease watercolor for once also looks much like a life study fig 146 The subject is half-length in the latter and a chair back is visible behind his right shoulder The Smithsonian portrait more closely resembles plate 217 in Letters and Notes Cól-lee appears again full length in cartoon 71 PD-old-100 Cherokee Cherokee people | ||||
