Mon-Chonsia, A Kansas Chief
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The McKenney and Hall portraits remain one of the most complete and colorful records of Native American leaders of the mid-19th century. Originally commissioned by Superintendent of Indian Affairs Thomas McKenney during a Native American delegation to the capital in the 1820s, the original oil paintings by Charles Bird King were destroyed in a fire in the Smithsonian Institute, and these portraits would have been lost forever had not McKenney commissioned lithograph copies for which James Hall wrote the historical text. These were released in three volumes in the 1830s and 1840s.