and the artist john trumble was there. and john trumble had had just completed the iconic portrait of washington, the life-size portrait of him, in his military outfit. and washington wanted a visual joke to be played on the muskogee delegates. and he had trumble put the painting on one side of the door that washington then opened so the delegates could see him. and then see him in his outfit in the painting. and they loved it. and everyone had a good laugh. and they felt it and didn't like the way it felt. so john trumble asked if he could paint them. and they said no. but he did draw them surreptitiously over that evening and throughout the week that they were there. and those drawings are in this exhibit. they're just beautiful drawings. and unlike anything that trumble really did, that's because he was doing it in secret. and i'm so glad he did that, even though the delegates didn't want that to be done. because it's the closest thing we have to a photograph of who the native negotiators were. and i love the story beca