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Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, & Condition of the
North American Indians. With Letters and Notes, Written during
Eight Years of Travel and Adventure among the Wildest and
Most Remarkable Tribes Now Existing. By George Catlin.

Published by Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly, London
(1876)

Original Color Lithographs (chromolithographs) over 140 years old!
Sheet size: approximately 6 1/8 x 9 3/8 inches
[also available are the 1845 black & white engravings]

George Catlin's paintings comprise the first important pictorial record of the Plains Indians and their then little-known homelands west of the Mississippi River. "Catlin's Indian Gallery," as the dedicated artist himself called it, consisted of hundreds of portraits of Indians, scenes of Indian life, and landscapes of a wilderness scarcely changed through the millennia. In his notebooks and on canvas, the young Pennsylvania lawyer captured much of an American that was swept away a century ago by the westward-pressing settler.

Catlin made these dramatic paintings on a series of journeys into largely unmapped Indian country between 1830 and 1836. For the first time, Americans in the eastern states saw the Pawnees, the tall Blackfeet and Crows, the Sioux, and the wild Comanches. They saw wide prairies teeming with buffalo, the turbulent Missouri River, and the giant grizzly bear. They saw villages of hundreds of graceful teepees and peered into the dim interiors of comfortable earth lodges, and witnessed the four-day torture ceremony of the Mandans.

The Plains Indians of Catlin's portraits were still proud and dignified, unlike their cousins on eastern reservations. Freed by the acquisition of the horse from the restrictions of hunger and scarcity, they were riding the crest of a new richness and power.

But they, too, were fated to lose in the encounter with western civilization—and Catlin knew it. "Art may mourn when these people are swept from the earth," he wrote, "and the artists of the future ages may look in vain for another race so picturesque in their costumes, their weapons, their colours, their manly games, and their chase...."

[ref.: "Letters and Notes..." introduction by Marjorie Halpin (Dover, 1973).]

George Catlin
as painted by William Fisk, 1849

"I sat out alone, unaided and unadvised, resolved, (if my life should be spared), by the aid of my brush and my pen, to rescue from oblivion so much of their primitive looks and customs as the industry and ardent enthusiasm of one lifetime could accomplish."

GEORGE CATLIN, ca. 1842

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Plate 224

Ball-play Dance

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Plate 225

Choctaw ball game; ball up

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Plate 226

Choctaw ball game; ball on the ground

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Plate 227

Eagle Dance of the Choctaw

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Plates 228-229

Picturesque bluffs on the upper Missouri

Dubuque's grave, upper Missouri

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Plates 230-231

Falls of St. Anthony

Fort Snelling

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Plate 232

Sioux cradles

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Plates 233-234

Toh-to-wah-kon-da-pee, Blue Medicine, medicine man

Wa-nah-de-tunck-a, Big Eagle, commonly called Black Dog

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Plates 235-236

Ah-no-je-naje, He Who Stands on Both Sides

We-chush-ta-doo-ta, Red Man

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Plate 237

Dog Dance

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Plates 238-239

Encampment of the Chippeways

Making portage around the Falls of St. Anthony with bark canoes

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Plates 241-242

Ka-bes-kunk, He Who Travels Everywhere

Ka-be-mub-be, He Who Sits Everywhere

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Plates 244-245

Ot-ta-wa, The Ottaway

Ju-ah-kis-gaw, a Chippeway woman

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Plates 248-249

The Lover's Leap

Pike's Tent

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Plates 250-251

Garlic Cape

Cornice Rocks

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Plate 253

Prairie du Chien

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Plate 252

Ball play of the women

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Plates 254-255

Naw-kaw, Wood

Wah-chee-hahs-ka, Man Who Puts All out of Doors, commonly called "The Boxer"

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Plates 256-257

Kaw-kaw-ne-choo-a

Wa-kon-zee-kaw, The Snake

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Plates 258-261

Mah-kee-me-teuv, Grizzly Bear

Me-cheet-e-neuh, Wounded Bear's Shoulder, wife of Grizzly Bear

Chee-me-na-na-quet, Great Cloud, son of Grizzly Bear

Tcha-kauks-o-ko-maugh, The Great Chief

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Plates 262-263

Coo-coo-coo, The Owl

Two Menominee youths

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