A Blackfoot Chief, His Wife, and a Medicine Man

The work employs a Realist approach, characterized by a simple background that focuses attention on the subjects, rendered in oil on a mounted card.

Created by George Catlin, an American artist who traveled extensively through the American West in the 1830s, documenting Native American life through his art.

Part of Catlin's broader oeuvre on Native American themes, contrasting with his earlier landscape engravings and later lithographic illustrations of different subjects.