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Title: The last war-whoop
Creator: Tait, A. F. (active ca. 1862), artist Currier, Nathaniel (1813-1888), American, lithographer Currier & Ives (active 1857-1907), American, publisher Maurer, Louis (active ca. 1890), undetermined
Date Created and/or Issued: c1856
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Scene on prairie following battle with white trapper on horseback looking at fallen Indian warrior who has been shot in chest and gives his last war cry. Other trappers gather horses in distance.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Painted by A.F. Tait; (LR, within image): L. Maurer; (LR): Lith. N. Currier, N[ew] Y[ork]; (LC): Entered... 1856 by N. Currier... N[ew] Y[ork]; (below title): New York, published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau Street.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, hand colored 52 x 67.7 cm., visible image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf596nb6x5
BANC PIC 1963.002:1450--FR
Subject: Animals
Clothing & dress
Fur trade
Horses
Indians of North America

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