Wi-jÃºn-jon, Pigeon's Egg Head (The Light) Going To and Returning From Washington
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During a winter in the nation's capital, he traded his native dress for European clothes and customs. In Catlin's before-and-after portrait, the once proud warrior, with a liquor bottle in his pocket, swaggers in high-heeled boots and carries a fan and umbrella. For Catlin, this transformation illustrated the tragic gulf between Native American and white cultures."}, {"label": "Luce Center Label", "content": "George Catlin first met the Light in St. Louis in December 1831, when the Assiniboine warrior was en route to Washington to meet President Andrew Jackson and tour the city. Catlin recalled that the warrior appeared for his portrait sitting \u00e2\u0080\u009cplumed and tinted . . . [and] dressed in his native costume, which was classic and exceedingly beautiful.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Wi-j\u00c3\u00ban-jon returned home to the northern Plains eighteen months later a decidedly different man---dressed apparently in a \u00e2\u0080\u009cgeneral\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\u00e2\u0080\u009d uniform and sharing what to his fellow tribesmen were astonishing accounts of the white man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s cities. They eventually rejected his stories as \u00e2\u0080\u009cingenious fabrication of novelty and wonder,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and his persistence in telling such \u00e2\u0080\u009clies\u00e2\u0080\u009d eventually led to his murder. 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