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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).]

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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

 

PLEASE CLICK ON A THUMBNAIL FOR AN ENLARGED VIEW
(Due to the age and type of paper used, some foxing may be present.)

Crow Horseman
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plate 76

Crow Horseman

$75
[minor foxing]

Two Crows, He who ties his hair before him
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 77-78

Pa-ris-ka-roo-pa, Two Crows

Ee-he-a-duck-chee-a, He Who Ties His Hair Before

$75

Two Crows, He who ties his hair before him
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plate 79

Buffalo chase

$75

Arikara village
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plate 80

Arikara Village of earth-covered lodges above St. Louis

$75

the Twin, Bloody Hand
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 81-82

Kah-beck-a, the Twin

Stan-au-pat, Bloody Hand

$75
[some foxing]

He Who Strikes, Sweet-scented Grass
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 83-84

Pah-too-ca-ra, He Who Strikes

Pshan-shaw, Sweet-scented Grass

$75

Fort Pierre
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plate 85

Fort Pierre, mouth of Teton River

$75

One Horn
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plate 86

One Horn, head chief of the Miniconjou

$75

Smoke, Pure Fountain
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 87-88

Shoo-de-ga-cha, Smoke, chief of the tribe

Hee-la'h-dee, Pure Fountain, wife of Smoke

$75

Bending Willow, Great Chief
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 89-90

Mong-shong-shaw, Bending Willow

Hongs-kay-de, Great Chief, son of Smoke

$75

Black Rock
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plate 91

Ee-ah-sa-pa, Black Rock

$75

Tobacco, Stone with Horns, Red Thing..., Sand Bar
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 92-95

Tchan-dee, Tobacco

Toh-ki-e-to, Stone with Horns

Wi-looh-tah-eeh-tchah-ta-mah-nee, Red Thing That Touches in Marching

Ychon-su-mons-ka, Sand Bar, wife of the trader, Francois Chardon

$75

ALSO AVAILABLE FRAMED, FROM THE 1876 COLOR LITHOGRAPH EDITION

Sioux Dog Feast, Self Torture
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 96-97

Sioux Dog Feast

Self-torture in Sioux Cermony

$75

Indian Pipes
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plate 98

Indian Pipes

$75

Indian Weapons
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plate 99

Indian Weapons

$75

Dance of the Chiefs
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plate 100

Dance of the Chiefs

$75

Scalping
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plate 101

Methods of scalping and use of scalps

$75

Indian Artifacts
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plate 101½

Indian Artifacts

$75

Sioux Bear Dance
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plate 102

Bear Dance, Sioux preparing for a bear hunt

$75

Beggar's Dance
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plate 103

Beggar's Dance

$75

Scalp Dance
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plate 104

Scalp Dance

$75
[some foxing]

Buffalo in running season
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 105-106

Buffalo bulls in running season

Buffalo bull in his wallow

$75
[some foxing]

buffalo chase
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 107-108

Buffalo chase

Buffalo chase with bows and lances

$75
[some foxing]

buffalo chase on snowshoes
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 109-110

Buffalo chase on snowshoes

Buffalo chase under wolf-skin masks

$75
[some foxing]

Buffalo battling men and women
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 111-112

Buffalo chase; bulls battling with men and women

Buffalo bull protecting cow and calf

$75
[some foxing]

White wolves attacking buffalo
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 113-114

White wolves attacking buffalo

White wolves attacking buffalo

$75
[some foxing]

Indian Frontier in 1840
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

U. States Indian Frontier in 1840.
Shewing [sic] the Positions of the Tribes that have been removed west of the Missisippi [sic].

$75
[some foxing]

Wolf on the Hill, She Who Bathes Her Knee
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 115-116

Nee-hee-o-ee-woo-tis, Wolf on the Hill

Tis-see-woo-na-tis, She Who Bathes Her Knee


$75
[some foxing]

Blackbird and Floyd's graves
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 117-118

Blackbird's Grave

Floyd's Grave

$75
[some foxing]

grassy bluffs above St. Louis
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 119-120

Grassy river bluffs above St. Louis

Grassy river bluffs above St. Louis

$75
[some foxing]

Indian burial customs, Belle Vue
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 121-122

Indian burial customs

"Belle Vue," the Indian agency of Major Dougherty

$75
[some foxing]

Square Hills, mouth of Platte river
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 123-124

The "Square Hills"

Mouth of the Platte River

$75
[some foxing]

buffalo crossing Missouri River
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 125-126

Batiste [sic], Bogard and Catlin approaching buffalo

Buffalo herd crossing the Missouri

$75
[some foxing]

Prairie fire
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 127-128

Prairie bluffs burning

Prairie meadow burning

$75
[some foxing]

White Cloud, Man of Sense, etc.
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 129-132

Notch-ee-ning-a, No Heart, called White Cloud, chief of the tribe

Wy-ee-yogh, Man of Sense

Pah-ta-coo-che, Shooting Cedar

Was-com-mun, Busy Man

$75

The Wolf, Little White Bear, etc.
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 133-136

Sho-me-cos-se, The Wolf

Meach-o-shin-gaw, Little White Bear

Chesh-oo-hong-ha, Man of Good Sense

Wa-hon-ga-shee, No Fool

$75

Buffalo Bull, Big Elk
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 140-141

La-doo-ke-a, Buffalo Bull

Le-shaw-loo-lah-lee-hoo, Big Elk

$75

He Who Strikes Two At Once, Loose Pipe-stem
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 143-144

No-way-ke-sug-ga, He Who Strikes Two At Once

Raw-no-way-woh-krah, Loose Pipe-stem

$75

Brave Chief, Big Elk
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 145-146

Ki-ho-ga-way-shu-shee, Brave Chief, chief of the Omaha

Om-pa-ton-ga, Big Elk

$75

Florida, Santa Rosa Island Seminoles
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 147-148

Beautiful savannah in the
pinewoods of Florida

Seminole family drying fish on
Santa Rosa Island

Clermont and wife
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 150-151

Clermont, head chief of the Osages

Wife and child of Clermont

$75
[some foxing]

Black Dog
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 152

Tchong-tas-sab-bee, Black Dog

$75

Tal-lee
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 153

Tal-lee

$75
[some foxing]

Big Crow, Man of the Bed, He Who Is Not Afraid
(click thumbnail to enlarge)

Plates 154-156

Ko-ha-tunk-a, Big Crow

Nah-com-e-shee, Man of the Bed

Mun-ne-pus-ke, He Who Is Not Afraid

$75

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