Buffalo Bull's Back Fat, or Stu-mick-o-súcks / Stamikosáksi / ᔈᒣᒍᖾᓭᖽᐧ (in the

Blackfoot language The Blackfoot language, also called Niitsi'powahsin () or Siksiká ( ; , ), is an Algonquian languages, Algonquian language spoken by the Blackfoot Confederacy, Blackfoot or people, who currently live in the northwestern plains of North Americ ...

), was a head war chief of the Blood Indians. He is remembered today for his portrait, painted by

George Catlin George Catlin ( ; July 26, 1796 – December 23, 1872) was an American lawyer, painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans in the American frontier. Traveling to the Wes ...

in 1832, located at the

Smithsonian American Art Museum The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM; formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution. Together with its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, SAAM holds one of the world's lar ...

. In one of his letters, Catlin wrote: The painting appeared in the exhibit ''Pictures from the New World at Schloss Charlottenburg'', which was held in the Orangerie of

Charlottenburg Palace Schloss Charlottenburg (Charlottenburg Palace) is a Baroque palace in Berlin, located in Charlottenburg, a district of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf borough, and is among the largest palaces in the world. The palace was built at the end of th ...

, Berlin, Germany, in 1989.Kersten, Hans Ulrich. General Anzeiger. P. 29, from

Catlin files, accessed August 10, 2012

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