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Tshizunhaukau, lifedates unknown
A warrior, traditional healer, and noted sage, Tshizunhaukau was one of a delegation of Ho-Chunk (WInnebago) who accompanied Nawkaw to Washington, DC, in 1828. James Otto Lewis first painted Tshizunhaukau's portrait in 1827. Lewis published his own Aboriginal Portfolio of Indian portraits before McKenney and Hall completed their own project. Tshizunhaukau, according to McKenney and Hall, carried in this portrait an ingenious almanac-like device of his own invention, a rod covered with marks and figures representing the divisions of time, changes of the seasons, and weather calculations.
H.D., after Charles Bird King, after James Otto Lewis, 1842 |