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Symbolic Petition of the Chippewa Chiefs

Date: 1851
Description: This image was copied by artist Seth Eastman in 1849 and printed in Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's The History of the Indian Tribes of the United States, Hist...
Book or Pamphlet

Combat between Indian Tribes

Date: 1852
Description: Illustration of the Ojibwa, the Sacs, and Foxes battling from canoes on the water.
Drawing

Indian Sugar Camp

Date: 1850
Description: Chippewa Indian Sugar Camp. Plate 61, preceding p. 199, vol. I, The Indian tribes of the United States: their history antiquities, customs, religion, ar...
Book or Pamphlet

Pictographs On Lake Superior And Carp River

Date: 1851
Description: Pictographs on Lake Superior and Carp River, Mich. Six rows of animals, canoes, birds, human figures, and other symbols.
Drawing

Porcupine Mountains

Date: 1854
Description: Drawing of the Porcupine Mountains on Lake Superior. A deer is standing in the lake drinking water. A man is on the rock ledge above the shoreline and is a...
Print

Transporting the Wounded

Date: 1853
Description: "Transporting the Wounded". Wood engraving from a drawing by Seth Eastman, from the Aboriginal Portfolio by Mary H. Eastman, 1853.
Book or Pamphlet

Kenisteno, and his Band of Trout Lake, Wisconsin

Date: 1851
Description: Kenisteno, and his Band of Trout Lake, Wisconsin. One row of birds, animals and fish pictographs.
Book or Pamphlet

Meda Songs

Date: 1851
Description: Meda Songs pictographs. Four rows of symbols including animals, human figures and plants.
Book or Pamphlet

Webeno Songs

Date: 1851
Description: Webeno Songs pictographs. Four rows of symbols including animals, human figures and plants.
Book or Pamphlet

Pictorial Record of a Chief's Success in Hunting and War

Date: 1851
Description: Pictorial record of a Chief's Success in Hunting and War displayed in pictographs. Two rows of symbols including animals, human figures and plants.
Book or Pamphlet

Synopsis of Indian Hieroglyphics

Date: 1851
Description: Synopsis of Indian Hieroglyphics. Pictographs 1-70, including birds, human figures, plants, animals and other symbols.
Book or Pamphlet

Synopsis of Indian Hieroglyphics

Date: 1851
Description: Synopsis of Indian Hieroglyphics. Pictographs 71-140, including birds, human figures, plants, animals and other symbols.
Book or Pamphlet

Two Pictographs, Okundekund and Kakake-Ogwunaosh

Date: 1851
Description: Two pictographs: Pictograph C., Okundekund, and his Band of Ontonagon, Michigan, and Pictograph D., Kakake-Ogwunaosh, and his Band of the Head of the Wisc...
Book or Pamphlet

Kaizheosh, and his Band from Lake Vieu Desert

Date: 1851
Description: Pictograph E., Plate 63, "Kaizheosh, and his Band from Lake Vieu Desert. Michigan and Wisconsin." A group of symbols including birds, animals, a fish and a...

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