Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Wah-ro-née-sah (The Surrounder), an Otoe chief

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Original – Wah-ro-née-sah (The Surrounder), an Otoe chief. Probably painted at Fort Leavenworth in 1832, by George Catlin. Described by Catlin as “quite an old man; his shirt made of the skin of a grizzly bear, with the claws on”
Reason
The painting shows a veteran Otoe warrior and chief. The painting gives an important look at traditional clothing such as the hair style, wampum earrings, pipe, and most of all a beaded grizzly bear skin robe. The Otoe tribe, which fused with the related Missouria tribe remain relatively unknown to the general public and any images of them in traditional attire are valuable sources of history. The portrait is painted by well known artist of American Indians George Catlin. Catlin's work is seen as highly valuable due to its depictions of American Indians at a time when most contact between Europeans and Indians of the North American west was with fur traders.
Articles in which this image appears
Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians,George Catlin
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Traditional
Creator
George Catlin

Promoted File:George Catlin - Wah-ro-née-sah, The Surrounder, Chief of the Tribe - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 22:59, 18 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]