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The War Dance
1844
Group of men engaged in a war dance. They hold spears, axes, and bows. (Plate 29)
O-Jib-Be-Ways
1844
Group portrait of North American Indians. Portraits of the O-Jib-Be-Ways, and individual portraits, one smoking a pipe. Symbols corresponding to individuals are similes of each man's Totem or signa...
Mah-To-Toh-Pa, The Mandan Chief
1844
Full-length portrait of Mah-To-Toh-Pa. He is holding a decorated spear. "In the former letter I gave some account of Mah-to-toh-pa (the four bears), second chief of the Mandans, whom I said I had p...
Kee-o-kuck, Or The Watching Fox
1835
Kee-o-kuck, or the Watching Fox, a Chief of the Sauk tribe and sucessor to Black Hawk. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at the great Treaty of Prairie du Chien (1825).
The Scalp Dance
1844
"The Scalp Dance is given as a celebration of a victory; and amongst this tribe, as I learned whilst residing with them, danced in the night, by the light of their torches, and just before retiring...
Buffalo Hunt, Approaching in a Ravine
1844
Hunters using rifles to kill buffalo (Plate 11)."This plate represents the familiar mode of procuring meat, practiced by all the voyageurs on the Missouri and other streams of that country, who run...
