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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.)

Comanche chasing buffalo through the Dragoons
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Plate 158

Comanche chasing buffalo through the Dragoons

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[some foxing]

Wild horses at play
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Plate 160

Wild horses at play

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Lassoing a wild horse, Breaking down a wild horse
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Plates 161-162

Lassoing a wild horse

Breaking down a wild horse

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Comanche warriors, with white flag, receive Dragoons
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Plate 163

Comanche warriors, with white flag, receive Dragoons

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[some foxing]

Comanche village; women dressing robes and drying meat
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Plate 164

Comanche village; women dressing robes and drying meat

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[some foxing]

Two Comanche girls, children of the chief
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Plate 165

Two Comanche girls, children of the chief

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[some foxing]

comanche dog fight
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Plate 166

Comanche moving camp, dog fight en route

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[some foxing]

Comanche feats of horsemanship  sham battle
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Plate 167

Comanche feats of horsemanship —
sham battle

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Comanches
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Plates 168-171

Ee-shah-ko-nee, Bow and Quiver, first chief

Ta-wah-que-nah, Mountain of Rocks, second chief

Ish-a-ro-yeh, Carries a Wolf

Is-sa-wah-tam-ah, Wolf Tied With Hair

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The Spaniard
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Plate 172

His-oo-san-ches, The Spaniard

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Pawnee village on the banks of the Red River
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Plate 173

Pawnee village on the banks of the Red River

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Mandans
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Plates 174-177

We-ta-ra-sha-ro, very old chief

Sky-se-ro-ka, second chief

Kah-kee-tsee, The Thighs

She-da-a, Wild Sage

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Kiowa, Kioway
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Plates 178-181

Teh-toot-sah, head Kioway

Bon-son-gee, The New Fire

Quay-ham-kay, Stone Shell

Wun-pan-to-mee, White Weasel and her brother, Tunk-aht-oh-ye, Thunderer

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Smoked Shield, Fights with a Feather
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Plates 182-183

Kots-a-to-ah, Smoked Shield

Ush-ee-kitz, Fights with a Feather

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[some foxing]

Catlin encamped, wolves in the distance
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Plate 184

Catlin encamped, wolves in the distance

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foremost man, cock turkey, swan, he who...
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Plates 185-188

Kee-an-ne-kuk, The Foremost Man

Ah-ton-we-tuck, Cock Turkey

Go-to-kow-pah-a, He Who Stands by Himself

Wa-pon-je-a, The Swan

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Sac. Bear Traveling at Night, etc.
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Plates 189-192

On-saw-kie, The Sac

Na-pow-saw, Bear Traveling in the Night

Kee-mon-saw, Little Chief

Wah-pe-seh-see, mother of Little Chief

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Man Who Tracks, etc.
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Plates 193-196

Pah-me-cow-e-tah, Man Who Tracks

Kee-mo-ra-ni-a

Ni-a-co-mo, To Fix with the Foot

Men-son-se-ah, Left Hand

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the Answer, etc.
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Plates 197-200

Ni-co-man, The Answer, a chief

Non-on-da-gon, a chief

Ee-tow-o-kaum, Both Sides of the River

Wanu-naw-con, the Dish. John W. Quinney

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Bread, etc.
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Plates 200-204

Bread, the chief

Cu-sick, son of the chief. A Baptist preacher

Good Hunter

Hard Hickory

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Red Jacket
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Plate 205

Red Jacket

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The Thinker
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Plate 206

Not-o-way, The Thinker, a chief

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He Who Goes Up River, etc.
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Plates 211-214

Lay-law-she-kaw, He Who Goes up the River

Ka-te-qua, Female Eagle

Pah-te-coo-saw, Straight Man

Ten-squa-ta-way, The Open Door. "The Shawnee Prophet," brother of Tecumseh

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John Ross, etc.
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Plates 215-218

John Ross

A Cherokee lady

Jo-lee, a chief

Tuch-ee, The Dutch

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The Great King, etc.
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Plates 219-222

Stee-cha-co-me-co, The Great King,
"Ben Perryman"

Hol-te-mal-te-tez-te-neehk-ee,
"Sam Perryman"

Mo-sho-la-tub-bee, He Who Puts Out and Kills

Ha-tchoo-tuck-nee, Snapping Turtle,
"Peter Pinchlin"

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He Who Drinks the Juice of the Stone
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Plate 224

Tullock-chish-ko, He Who Drinks
the Juice of the Stone

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