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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 Henry G. Bohn, London
(1845)
Original Engravings over 170 years old!
Sheet size: approximately 6 1/8 x 9 7/8 inches
[also available are the 1876 color lithographs]
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 "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 |
(Due to the age and type of paper used, some foxing may be present.)
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Frontispiece
The author painting a Chief at the base of the Rocky Mountains
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Frontispiece
Outline map of Indian Localities in 1833.
$250
[with folds as issued]
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Plates 3-4
Fort Union, 1832
View of the Missouri River, filled with snags and rafts formed by trees which have been undermined by the falling alluvial banks
$75
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Plates 5-6
Beautiful prairie bluffs above the Poncas
Prairie bluffs
$75
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Plates 7-8
Buffalo bull
Buffalo Cow
$75
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Plates 9-10
Batiste [sic] and Catlin running buffalo
Wounded buffalo
$75
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Plate 11
Stu-mick-o-sucks, Buffalo's Back Fat, head chief
$75
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Plates 12-13
Grandson of Buffalo's Back Fat
Eeh-nis-kin, Crystal Stone, wife of Buffalo's Back Fat
$75
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Plate 14
Pe-toh-pee-kiss, Eagle's Ribs
$75
ALSO AVAILABLE FRAMED, FROM THE 1876 COLOR LITHOGRAPH EDITION
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Plates 16-17
In-ne-o-cose, Iron Horn
Ah-kay-ee-pix-en, Woman Who Strikes Many
$75
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Plate 18
Wardrobe appendages of an Indian
$75
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Plate 19
Medicine man in curing costume
$75
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Plate 20
Crow lodge
$75
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Plates 21-22
Sioux moving camp
Sioux encamped
$75
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Plates 24-27
Chah-ee-chopes, Four Wolves
Oo-je-en-a-he-ha, Woman Who Lives in a Bear's Den
Dunk-pits-a-hoe-shee, Red Bear
Paris-ka-roo-pa, Two Crows, the Younger
$75
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Plates 28-31
Wi-jun-jon, Pigeon's Egg Head
Chin-cha-pee, Fire Bug that Creeps, wife of Pigeon's Egg Head
Bro-cas-sie, He Who Has Eyes Behind Him (also known as Broken Arm)
Tow-ee-ka-wet, wife of He Who Has Eyes Behind Him
$75
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Plate 32
Pipe Dance
$75
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Plates 33-34
Greater Wonder, a Cree woman carrying her baby in her robe
Assiniboin woman and her child
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Plates 35-36
Sha-co-pay, The Six, chief of the Ojibbeways
Wife of Sha-co-pay
$75
[foxing]
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Plates 37-38
The "Brick Kilns," Clay Bluffs above St. Louis
The "Brick Kilns," a Far View
$75
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Plates 39-40
Big Bend on the Upper Missouri
above St. Louis
Shooting Antelope
$75
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Plates 41-42
"The Grand Dome"
Community of prairie dogs
$75
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Plates 43-44
Solitary clay bluff
"The Three Domes," a group of clay bluffs above the Mandans
$75
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Plates 45-46
Distant view of Mandan village
Interior of a Mandan lodge
$75
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Plates 47-48
Bird's eye view of Mandan village
Back view of Mandan village, showing cemetery
$75
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Plate 49
Ha-na-tah-nu-mauh, Wolf Chief, head chief of the tribe
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Plates 50-53
Mah-tahp-ta-ha, He Who Rushes through the Middle
Seehk-hee-da, Mouse Colored Feather
Sha-ko-ka, Mint
Mi-neek-e-sunk-te-ca, Mink
$75
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Plate 54
San-ja-ko-kah, Deceiving Wolf, and his family
$75
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Plates 55
Mah-to-he-hah, Old Bear, a medicine man
$75
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Plate 56
Mandan Buffalo Dance
$75
[foxed]
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Plate 57
Mandan boys in sham fight
$75
[foxed]
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Plates 58-59
Rainmaker
Tchung-kee game
$75
[some foxing]
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Plates 58-59
Rainmaker
Tchung-kee game
$75
[some foxing]
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Plate 60
Mandan archery contest, "The Game of the Arrow"
$75
[some foxing]
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Plate 61
Mandan horse racing on a race course in back of the village
$75
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Plate 62
Catlin at a feast with Four Bears
$75
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Plate 63
Mandan war party in council
$75
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Plate 63
Mah-to-toh-pa, Four Bears
$75
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Plate 65a
robe of Mah-to-toh-pa
$75
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Plate 65b (Figures 1-4)
robe of Mah-to-toh-pa
$75
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Plate 65c (Figures 5-7)
robe of Mah-to-toh-pa
$75
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Plate 65d (Figures 8-11)
robe of Mah-to-toh-pa
$75
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Plate 66
Interior of a Mandan medicine lodge
$75
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Plate 67
Bel-lohck-mah-pick, the Bull Dance
$75
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Plate 68
Pohk-hong, the Cutting Scene
$75
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Plate 69
Eh-ke-nah-ka-nah-pick, the Last Race
$75
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Plates 70-71
Hidatsa village showing earth-covered lodges on Knife River, above St. Louis
Vapour baths of the Hidatsa
$75
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Plate 72
Eeh-to-k-pah-shee-pee-shah, Black Moccasin, an aged chief
$75
[some foxing]
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Plate 73-74
Ee-a-chin-che-a, Red Thunder, son of Black Moccasin
Seet-se-be-a, Midday Sun
$75
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Plate 75
Green Corn Dance of the Hidatsa
$75
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