McKenney & Hall
42 x 33 cm
Sagoyewatha (Red Jacket): The Seneca chief and orator was
known in his youth as Otetiani (Always Ready) and as an adult as Sagoyewatha (Keeper
Awake). He later took the name Red Jacket after an embroidered red coat given
to him by the British for his services in the American Revolutionary War.
Red Jacket is depicted wearing a peace medal
presented to him by US president George Washington in 1792. The medal is a
large silverplate oval engraved with an image of Washington shaking Red
Jacket's hand with an inscription below reading "George Washington - Red
Jacket – 1792”. Red Jacket wore this medal in every portrait painted of him and
it is now in the collection of the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum.
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