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Title
[Sioux 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 152, no. 273 - no. 275.
Image no. 273 shows Mah-to-tchee-ga (little bear) of the Onc-pa-pa band; image no. 274 shows his brother; and, plate 275 (Shon-ka (the dog), chief of the Caz-a-zshee-ta band.
Painted while at Laidlaw's Trading-house of the American Fur Company, along Missouri River.
2010-6726GEN.
Type
image
Format
Pictorial works.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 print : lithograph, col. ; image 4 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. on page 9 5/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001485788CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Indians of North America--Great Plains--Pictorial works
Dakota Indians--Great Plains--Pictorial works
Tribal chiefs--United States
Warriors--Great Plains
Great Plains--Pictorial works
Prints
Lithographs
Portrait prints
Place
Great Plains
United States

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