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Title
[Smoking horses]
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 163, no. 292.
Shows Sac and Fox Indians in ritual. Fox Indians seated, smoking, requesting loan of horses from Sac warriors prior to battle.
2010-6737GEN.
Type
image
Format
Pictorial works.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 print : lithograph, col. ; image 4 7/8 x 6 5/8 in. on page 9 5/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001485802CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Indians of North America--Great Plains--Pictorial works
Sauk Indians--Pictorial works
Fox Indians--Pictorial works
Warriors--Great Plains
Horses--Great Plains
Rites & ceremonies--Great Plains
Great Plains--Pictorial works
Prints
Lithographs
Place
Great Plains

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