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Book or Pamphlet

Ball Play on the Prairie

Date: 1884
Description: Native Americans playing a lacrosse-like game of ball.
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Historia Antipodum oder Newe Welt

Date: 1655
Description: Frontispiece to Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien (1655).
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Outina and His Army

Date: 1655
Description: Engraving made after a painting by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (died 1588) while on the Laudonnière Expedition in Florida, ca. 1564.
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Killing Alligators

Date: 1655
Description: Engraving made after a painting by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (died 1588) while on the Laudonnière Expedition in Florida, ca. 1564.
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How Indians Treat Their Sick

Date: 1655
Description: Engraving made after a painting by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (died 1588) while on the Laudonnière Expedition in Florida, ca. 1564.
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Dress of the Indians

Date: 1655
Description: Depicts Indians encountered on the Barlowe and Amadas Expedition in Virgina, ca. 1584.
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Constructing Boats

Date: 1655
Description: Engraving made after a watercolor painting by John White during the Barlowe Expedition in Virginia, 1585-1587.
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English and Mermaids

Date: 1655
Description: Scene of the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, ca. 1614 showing men at the water's edge being beckoned by mermaids.
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A Man of Nootka Sound

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 38. Portrait from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
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A View of the Habitations in Nootka Sound

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 41. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
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The Inside of a House in Nootka Sound

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 42. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
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A View of Snug Corner Cove in Prince William's Sound

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 45. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
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A Man of Prince William's Sound

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 46. Portrait from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
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A Man of Oonalashka

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 48. Portrait from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
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Canoes of Oonalashka

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 50. Portrait from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
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The Inside of a House, in Oonalashka

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 58. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
Book or Pamphlet

Pawnee Torture

Date: 1884
Description: A engraving of the artist's conception of Pawnees torturing a female captive in the Morning Star Sacrifice ceremony.
Book or Pamphlet

Ho-Chunk in Ciproke

Date: 1884
Description: Group of Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Indians in a long house (ciproke). Some of the men are displaying animal pelts. There is a bucket and a small barrel at the e...
Book or Pamphlet

Spearing Fish in Winter

Date: 1884
Description: Small group of Native Americans spearing fish through ice on a river. Mountains can be seen in the background.

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