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Portrait of the Oneida Chieftain Shikellamy, c 1820 by an unknown artist.
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This folk painting from the early nineteenth century presents Shikellamy as an American primitive, dressed in animal skins and standing against a wilderness background.

Credit: Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Collection of Edgar Williams and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1966.

This folk painting from the early nineteenth century presents Shikellamy as an American primitive, dressed in animal skins and standing against a wilderness background.

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