Native American and Women Treaty Tableau

This tableau depicts the ratification of a treaty with a local tribe, which Smith may have recalled from childhood. The pact is being sealed with a handshake between a Native American and a white woman. With stunning headdress and clam-shell encrusted garment, the Native American chief towers over the female figure, at nearly twice her size. Smith may have employed this difference in scale to imply the stature of the figures involved, and/or to imply Native Americans as people to 'look up to'.