Buffalo Bull's Back Fat, or Stu-mick-o-súcks (in the Blackfoot language), was a head war chief of the

Blood Indians The Kainai Nation (or , or Blood Tribe) ( bla, Káínaa) is a First Nations band government in southern Alberta, Canada, with a population of 12,800 members in 2015, up from 11,791 in December 2013. translates directly to 'many chief' (fro ...

. He is remembered today for his portrait, painted by

George Catlin George Catlin (July 26, 1796 – December 23, 1872) was an American adventurer, lawyer, painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West. Traveling to the American West five times during the 183 ...

in 1832, located at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. 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. The palace was built at the end of the 17th century and was greatly expanded during th ...

, Berlin, Germany, in 1989.Kersten, Hans Ulrich. General Anzeiger. P. 29, from Smithsonian American Art Museum Catlin files, accessed Aug. 10, 2012

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