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  "title": "Archival portraits and paintings — shared decorative collage",
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  "composition": "Code-composed SVG with embedded authentic source images, nine full-frame proportional panels and small identity labels. No generated or reconstructed people, pixel retouching or colorization. CSS may crop the overall collage and apply a warm translucent overlay. Source portraits are individually linked below.",
  "scope": "A selected decorative collection, not a comprehensive account of Indigenous North America or a claim that these people represent every community. Historical outside paintings retain their source perspectives. Source counts, nation histories, territorial associations and research adequacy are unchanged.",
  "license": "The collage contains separately credited components. See each image record; Grant Richards photograph CC BY2.0, other selected items Public Domain/CC0 or museum Free to use as individually recorded. No blanket claim that attribution requirements disappear.",
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      "id": "sitting-bull-notman-c1885",
      "label": "Sitting Bull",
      "personIdentity": "Sitting Bull",
      "title": "Sitting Bull",
      "creator": "William Notman",
      "date": "c. 1885",
      "mediaType": "photograph",
      "asset": "assets/archival-portraits/sitting-bull-notman-c1885.jpg",
      "sourceUrl": "https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_S_NPG.77.185",
      "sourceImageUrl": "https://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=NPG-S_NPG_77_185_inex",
      "rightsLabel": "CC0 — exact National Portrait Gallery object/image record",
      "rightsUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
      "credit": "William Notman, c. 1885. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, S/NPG.77.185. CC0.",
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      "scope": "Exact primary NPG item, named sitter, artist, date, object number and image-specific CC0 visually read in the normal browser. The complete delivered source image was downloaded through the browser and visually inspected. Direct automated requests failed; no access challenge was bypassed. Original JPEG retained unchanged. Historical portrait of one person, not evidence for every community. No generated content, colorization or retouching. SVG display scales the complete frame proportionally.",
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      "title": "Comanche Village, Women Dressing Robes and Drying Meat, 1834–1835",
      "credit": "George Catlin, 1834–1835. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr., 1985.66.346. Public domain.",
      "cardCredit": "George Catlin · 1834–1835 · SAAM",
      "creator": "George Catlin",
      "date": "1834–1835; museum describes a sketch made at a Comanche village in 1834",
      "sourceUrl": "https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/comanche-village-women-dressing-robes-and-drying-meat-4011",
      "sourceImageUrl": "https://ids.si.edu/ids/download?id=SAAM-1985.66.346_1",
      "rightsLabel": "Public domain — SAAM item marked Free to use",
      "rightsUrl": "https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/comanche-village-women-dressing-robes-and-drying-meat-4011",
      "scope": "Smithsonian American Art Museum identifies this George Catlin oil painting specifically as a Comanche village and gives its date as 1834–1835. Its description attributes the 1834 village sketch and the foreground work interpretation to Catlin. This is an outside artist’s historical representation, not a documentary photograph, Comanche-made artwork, a present government depiction, or evidence that every Comanche community lived or worked identically. No exact present-state location, village name, named individual, current cultural practice or territorial boundary is inferred from the scene. Catlin’s quoted village-size claims and stereotypes are not adopted. Complete 3000x1979 delivered museum source JPEG preserved. Proposed web copy resized proportionally to 1800x1187 and recompressed at JPEG quality 88; no pixel crop, retouching, recoloring, generated content or added detail. Card/page CSS crops and overlays must be disclosed. CSS may crop or overlay directory/background copies; the opened-page image preserves the complete delivered source frame.",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-10-26",
      "alt": "George Catlin’s historical painting of a Comanche village with skin-covered lodges, people, horses, and hide-working and meat-drying activity.",
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          "inspectionScope": "Actual museum item identification and date, gift credit, object number, Comanche subject classification and attributed Catlin description, web lines178–243, plus item-specific rights API. No wider Catlin publication or other village history inspected for this image use."
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      "reproductionNote": "Complete 3000x1979 delivered museum source JPEG preserved. Proposed web copy resized proportionally to 1800x1187 and recompressed at JPEG quality 88; no pixel crop, retouching, recoloring, generated content or added detail. Card/page CSS crops and overlays must be disclosed.",
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      "label": "Geronimo",
      "personIdentity": "Geronimo",
      "title": "Geronimo",
      "creator": "A. Frank Randall",
      "date": "c. 1887",
      "mediaType": "photograph",
      "asset": "assets/archival-portraits/geronimo-randall-c1887.jpg",
      "sourceUrl": "https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2002.96",
      "sourceImageUrl": "https://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=NPG-NPG_2002_96_inex",
      "rightsLabel": "CC0 — exact National Portrait Gallery object/image record",
      "rightsUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
      "credit": "A. Frank Randall, c. 1887. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, NPG.2002.96. CC0.",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-10-26",
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      "scope": "Exact primary NPG item, named sitter, artist, date, object number and image-specific CC0 visually read in the normal browser. The complete delivered source image was downloaded through the browser and visually inspected. Direct automated requests failed; no access challenge was bypassed. Original JPEG retained unchanged. Historical portrait of one person, not evidence for every community. No generated content, colorization or retouching. SVG display scales the complete frame proportionally.",
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    {
      "id": "kiowa-tohausen-catlin-1834",
      "personIdentity": "Téh-tóot-sah / Tohausen / Little Bluff (Kiowa)",
      "title": "Téh-tóot-sah (better known as Tohausen, Little Bluff), First Chief, 1834",
      "creator": "George Catlin",
      "mediaType": "painting",
      "date": "1834",
      "credit": "George Catlin, 1834. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr., 1985.66.62. Public domain.",
      "rightsLabel": "Public domain — SAAM item marked Free to use",
      "rightsUrl": "https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/teh-toot-sah-better-known-tohausen-little-bluff-first-chief-4408",
      "sourceUrl": "https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/teh-toot-sah-better-known-tohausen-little-bluff-first-chief-4408",
      "asset": "assets/profile-visuals/kiowa-tohausen-catlin-1834.jpg",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-10-26",
      "scope": "Smithsonian American Art Museum identifies the sitter as Téh-tóot-sah, also known as Tohausen or Little Bluff, a Kiowa chief, and dates George Catlin’s oil portrait to 1834. Its actual subject classification explicitly names Kiowa. This is an outside artist’s historical portrait of an individually identified person, not a generic Native likeness, a documentary photograph, Kiowa-made art, or a current tribal-government representative. Exact portrait location, clothing/design meanings, current cultural practice and community endorsement are not established by this image check. The named leader and date are retained without claiming that one person represents all Kiowa communities or periods. Complete 2466x3000 museum-delivered source JPEG inspected and preserved. Web copy resized proportionally to 1480x1800 and recompressed at quality 88; no pixel crop, added detail, generated material, retouching or recoloring. Cards and opened-page backgrounds may use disclosed CSS crops/overlays. Preserve a full-frame route where possible. CSS crops and overlays apply to directory/background copies; the opened-page image retains the complete delivered frame.",
      "selectionNote": "Existing individually identified historical source image; no claim that the sitter is universally recognizable.",
      "label": "Téh-tóot-sah / Tohausen / Little Bluff",
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    {
      "id": "assiniboine-chin-cha-pee-catlin-1832",
      "personIdentity": "Chin-cha-pee (Assiniboine; museum historical catalogue name)",
      "title": "Chin-cha-pee, Fire Bug That Creeps, Wife of Pigeon’s Egg Head",
      "creator": "George Catlin(1796–1872)",
      "mediaType": "painting",
      "date": "1832",
      "credit": "George Catlin, 1832. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr., 1985.66.180. Public domain.",
      "rightsLabel": "Public domain — current SAAM item marks Free to use and Unrestricted (Public Domain); indexed Smithsonian media record also identifies CC0.",
      "rightsUrl": "https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/chin-cha-pee-fire-bug-creeps-wife-pigeons-egg-head-4054",
      "sourceUrl": "https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/chin-cha-pee-fire-bug-creeps-wife-pigeons-egg-head-4054",
      "asset": "assets/profile-visuals/assiniboine-chin-cha-pee-catlin-1832.jpg",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-10-26",
      "scope": "One Assiniboine woman as portrayed by George Catlin at Fort Union in 1832. Explicit historical outside representation; not present-day portrait, a traditional-design template, all-Assiniboine clothing claim, or a current-government identification. Use factual museum identification, artist, date and scope; museum historical title retained as catalogue wording, not claimed to be a community-verified name translation. No ceremonial content labelled in actual objectrecord. Portrait does not improve historical-research adequacy/counts. Original full painting frame retained. Proportional JPEG web maximum 1,400 pixels and card maximum 500 pixels, no cropping, retouching or generated content. Directory cards and page backdrops may use CSS crops and translucent overlays; the opened image preserves the complete delivered frame.",
      "selectionNote": "Existing individually identified historical source image; no claim that the sitter is universally recognizable.",
      "label": "Chin-cha-pee",
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    {
      "id": "tonkawa-grant-richards-rinehart-bpl-1898",
      "personIdentity": "Chief Grant Richards (Tonkawa)",
      "title": "Chief Grant Richards, Tonkawa (1898)",
      "creator": "Frank A. Rinehart",
      "mediaType": "photograph",
      "date": "1898",
      "credit": "Frank A. Rinehart / Boston Public Library, Print Department, 09_06_000019, Rinehart no.1057 · CC BY2.0",
      "rightsLabel": "CC BY2.0; BPL's item also states no known restrictions",
      "rightsUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.flickr.com/photos/24029425@N06/4100761211",
      "asset": "assets/profile-visuals/tonkawa-grant-richards-rinehart-bpl-1898.jpg",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-10-26",
      "scope": "An individually identified Tonkawa portrait, catalogued with the 1898 Omaha exposition. Appropriate for the broad Tonkawa profile. It does not establish a Texas photograph location, identify current officials, or represent every Tonkawa person or all historical clothing. Read the primary BPL Flickr item's subject, photographer, date, collection identifiers and rights notice; followed its CC BY2.0 link and read the license deed. Read Commons copying provenance and license. Visually inspected the complete1186×1500 available image, including original print edges and BPL stamp. The image is monochrome; no colorization, generation or retouching was performed. The web reader's Flickr image request returned403. The openly linked Commons copy downloaded normally; no access control was bypassed. The primary Flickr text and license remained readable. Complete-frame web copies are proportionally compressed/resized; CSS crops/overlays apply to background/card displays. No colorization, generation or retouching. The full available frame remains in the opened-page banner.",
      "selectionNote": "Existing individually identified historical source image; no claim that the sitter is universally recognizable.",
      "label": "Chief Grant Richards",
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      "id": "kickapoo-catlin-kee-an-ne-kuk-1830",
      "personIdentity": "Kee-án-ne-kuk (Kickapoo)",
      "title": "Kee-án-ne-kuk, Foremost Man, Chief of the Tribe (1830)",
      "creator": "George Catlin",
      "mediaType": "painting",
      "date": "1830",
      "credit": "George Catlin, 1830. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr., 1985.66.240. Public domain.",
      "rightsLabel": "Public domain — museum marks Free to use",
      "rightsUrl": "https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/kee-ne-kuk-foremost-man-chief-tribe-4061",
      "sourceUrl": "https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/kee-ne-kuk-foremost-man-chief-tribe-4061",
      "asset": "assets/profile-visuals/kickapoo-catlin-kee-an-ne-kuk-1830.jpg",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-10-26",
      "scope": "The museum identifies the sitter as Kickapoo. Its contextual note places the probable sitting at Fort Leavenworth, in present-day Kansas. Appropriate for the broad Kickapoo reading profile; it does not identify a present-day Texas government member or establish territorial boundaries. Read the primary item record, object metadata, museum contextual note, visible reuse label and item-specific HTML rights metadata. Visually inspected both the 793×960 preview and complete 2148×2600 source frame. The museum's historical note quotes Catlin; those attributed religious descriptions and trader anecdotes are not independently corroborated research in this review. The museum’s public-domain/Free to use designation is retained without inventing a CC0 license. Complete source frame proportionally resized and compressed for web copies; CSS crops/overlays apply to background/card copies, while the page banner retains the full frame. No generated or retouched image content. No community endorsement or documentary photograph claim.",
      "selectionNote": "Existing individually identified historical source image; no claim that the sitter is universally recognizable.",
      "label": "Kee-án-ne-kuk",
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      "title": "Caddo Indians Chasing Buffalo, Cross Timbers, Texas",
      "creator": "George Catlin, painter; digital photographer not individually recorded",
      "credit": "George Catlin, Caddo Indians Chasing Buffalo, Cross Timbers, Texas, 1846–1848, oil on canvas. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr., 1985.66.589.",
      "cardCredit": "George Catlin, 1846–1848 · SAAM",
      "sourceUrl": "https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/caddo-indians-chasing-buffalo-cross-timbers-texas-3979",
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      "rightsLabel": "Free to use — Smithsonian American Art Museum",
      "rightsUrl": "https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/caddo-indians-chasing-buffalo-cross-timbers-texas-3979",
      "date": "1846–1848",
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      "alt": "George Catlin painting of a mounted hunter pursuing a buffalo herd across a grassy landscape bordered by trees, titled Caddo Indians Chasing Buffalo, Cross Timbers, Texas.",
      "scope": "George Catlin’s historical painting, dated 1846–1848 by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, depicts a mounted hunter and buffalo in the Cross Timbers of Texas. The item record names Caddo people, credits the painter and the Harrison gift, and explicitly marks the image Free to use. This is an outside artistic depiction, not a Caddo-made work, a photograph, or a survey of territory. The museum’s historical Catlin quotation is not adopted as factual synthesis. The complete available 2600×1873 digital frame and primary item/rights record were inspected; the web image is proportionally resized/recompressed, with no generated content or retouching. Cards and backdrops use CSS crops/overlays; the opened profile also shows the complete frame. This visual review adds no substantive source checks.",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-10-25",
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      "personIdentity": "Bód-a-sin (Delaware/Lenape)",
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      "creator": "George Catlin",
      "mediaType": "painting",
      "date": "1830",
      "credit": "George Catlin, 1830. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr., 1985.66.274. Public domain.",
      "rightsLabel": "Public domain — SAAM item marked Free to use",
      "rightsUrl": "https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/bod-sin-chief-tribe-3931",
      "sourceUrl": "https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/bod-sin-chief-tribe-3931",
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      "reviewedAt": "2026-10-26",
      "scope": "Smithsonian American Art Museum explicitly identifies Bód-a-sin as a Delaware/Lenape chief. George Catlin’s 1830 oil portrait is an outside artist’s historical portrayal of one named person, not a documentary photograph, Lenape-made art, a generic Native likeness, or an image of a present government. The museum says it was probably painted at Fort Leavenworth in today’s Kansas; that uncertainty is retained. This image does not establish a Texas connection, exact territorial boundaries, current clothing or cultural practice, descent to a particular government, or community endorsement. No meanings are assigned to the sitter’s clothing or ornaments. The museum’s paired Delaware/Lenape identification supports these two overlapping directory reading labels. They do not count as two distinct nations or imply one present government. Complete 2461x3000 museum-delivered source JPEG inspected and preserved. Web copy resized proportionally to 1477x1800 and recompressed at quality 88; no pixel crop, added detail, generated material, retouching or recoloring. Directory cards and opened-page backgrounds may use disclosed CSS crops/overlays. Preserve a full-frame route where possible. CSS crops/overlays apply to cards and backgrounds; the opened image preserves the complete delivered source frame.",
      "selectionNote": "Existing individually identified historical source image; no claim that the sitter is universally recognizable.",
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