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Title
[Delaware and Mo-hee-con-neush or Mohegans men]
Creator
Catlin, George, 1796-1872
Date Created and/or Issued
1848
Publication Information
London : Henry G. Bohn
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
Plates in: Illustrations of the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians : in a series of letters and notes written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing. : with three hundred and sixty engravings, from the author's original paintings / by Geo. Catlin, Vol. 2, plate 115, no. 197 - no. 200.
Images no. 197 and 198 show chiefs of the Delaware tribe. Images no. 199 and 200 show members of the Mo-hee-con-neush or Mohegans tribe (remains of the Pequots of Massachusetts). Author found tribe residing near Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Image no. 197 shows Ni-co-man (the answer); image no. 198 shows Non-on-da-gon; image no. 199 shows Ee-tow-o-kaum (both sides of the river); and, image no. 200 shows Waun-naw-con (the dish) also known as John W. Quinney, a Baptist missionary preacher, in western dress.
2010-6689GEN.
Type
image
Format
Pictorial works.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
4 prints (1 page) : lithograph, col. ; images 3 1/8 x 2 1/4 in. on page 9 5/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001485494CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Indians of North America--Great Plains--Pictorial works
Indians of North America--Wisconsin--Pictorial works
Indians of North America--Clothing--Great Plains--Pictorial works
Indians of North America--Clothing--Wisconsin--Pictorial works
Delaware Indians--Pictorial works
Mohegan Indians--Pictorial works
Tribal chiefs--United States
Warriors--Great Plains
Warriors--Wisconsin
Preachers--Wisconsin
Missionaaries--Wisconsin
Great Plains--Pictorial works
Prints
Lithographs
Portrait prints
Place
Great Plains
Wisconsin
United States

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