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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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Plates 264-265

Distant View of Mackinaw

Sault Ste. Marie from the Canadian Shore

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Plates 268-269

On-daig, The Crow

Gitch-ee-gaw-ga-osh, Point That Remains Forever

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Plate 270

Pipe Stone Quarry

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Plates 273-275

Mah-to-che-ga, Little Bear

Tah-teck-a-da-hair, Steep Wind, brother of The Dog

Shon-ka, The Dog

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Plates 276-277

Swan Lake

Catching Muskrats

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Plates 278-279

Sioux gathering wild rice

Banks of the St. Peters River near the Traverse de Sioux

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Plate 280

Kee-o-kuk, The Running Fox

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Plates 281-282

Wife of Kee-o-kuk

Favorite son of Kee-o-kuk

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Plates 283-286

Muk-a-tah-mish-o-kah-kaik, Black Hawk

Nah-se-us-kuk, Whirling Thunder, son of Black Hawk

Wah-pe-kee-suck, White Cloud

Wee-sheet, Sturgeon's Head

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Plates 287-288

Ah-mou-a, The Whale

Wa-quo-tha-qua, Buck's Wife or Female Deer

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Plate 289

Pash-ee-pa-ho, Little Stabbing Chief

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Plate 290

Keokuk on horseback

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Plate 291

Slave Dance

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Plate 292

"Smoking horses," Fox going to war beg horses from the Sauk

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Plate 293

Begging Dance

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Plate 294

Sailing in canoes with the aid of blankets

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Plate 295

Discovery Dance

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Plate 296

Dance to the berdash (i-coo-coo-a)

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Plate 297

Dance to the medicine-bag of the brave

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Plate 298

Osceola, Black Drink

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Plates 299-302

Ye-how-lo-gee, The Cloud

Ee-mat-la, King Phillip

Co-ee-ha-jo

La-shee, the Licker, commonly called "Creek Billy"

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Plates 303-304

Osceola Nick-a-no-chee, Seminole boy

Seminole woman

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Plate 305

Mick-e-no-pah

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Plate 306

Decorations on Crow robes in Catlin's collection

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Plate 307

Decorations on Crow robes in Catlin's collection

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Plate 308

Outlines on a Pawnee robe in Catlin collection

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Plate 309

Outlines on a Pawnee robe in Catlin collection

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Plate 310

An Indian song on birch bark in the Catlin collection

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Plate 311

Symbolic writings and totems

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A chart showing the moves of the Mandans and the place of their extinction

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