North American Indians: Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners, Customs, and Conditions, Written During Eight Years' Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839, Volume II
George Catlin was an American painter and writer. In 1823 he gave up his law practice to pursue his self-taught art, painting portraits in Philadelphia, Washington, D. C. and Albany, New York. After meeting a tribal delegation of Native Americans from the Far West he became eager to preserve the vanishing tribes and customs of the Native Americans through his art.
Catlin traveled throughout the American West from 1832 to 1840. He sketched and painted hundreds of portraits, village scenes, religious rituals and games and wrote of his encounters with these fascinating people as he worked.
The North American Indians features fifty-eight letters and 400 engraved illustrations from the author's original portraits, all in a two-volume set.
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North American Indians: Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners, Customs, and Conditions, Written During Eight Years' Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839, Volume II
George Catlin was an American painter and writer. In 1823 he gave up his law practice to pursue his self-taught art, painting portraits in Philadelphia, Washington, D. C. and Albany, New York. After meeting a tribal delegation of Native Americans from the Far West he became eager to preserve the vanishing tribes and customs of the Native Americans through his art.
Catlin traveled throughout the American West from 1832 to 1840. He sketched and painted hundreds of portraits, village scenes, religious rituals and games and wrote of his encounters with these fascinating people as he worked.
The North American Indians features fifty-eight letters and 400 engraved illustrations from the author's original portraits, all in a two-volume set.
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North American Indians: Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners, Customs, and Conditions, Written During Eight Years' Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839, Volume II
North American Indians: Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners, Customs, and Conditions, Written During Eight Years' Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839, Volume II
George Catlin was an American painter and writer. In 1823 he gave up his law practice to pursue his self-taught art, painting portraits in Philadelphia, Washington, D. C. and Albany, New York. After meeting a tribal delegation of Native Americans from the Far West he became eager to preserve the vanishing tribes and customs of the Native Americans through his art.
Catlin traveled throughout the American West from 1832 to 1840. He sketched and painted hundreds of portraits, village scenes, religious rituals and games and wrote of his encounters with these fascinating people as he worked.
The North American Indians features fifty-eight letters and 400 engraved illustrations from the author's original portraits, all in a two-volume set.
George Catlin was an American painter and writer. In 1823 he gave up his law practice to pursue his self-taught art, painting portraits in Philadelphia, Washington, D. C. and Albany, New York. After meeting a tribal delegation of Native Americans from the Far West he became eager to preserve the vanishing tribes and customs of the Native Americans through his art.
Table of Contents
Frontispiece:--The Author painting a Chief in an Indian Village.
Map of Indian Localities embraced within the Author's Travels
Letter No. 11
Wyoming, birth-place of the Author
His former Profession
First cause of his Travels to the Indian Country
Delegation of Indians in Philadelphia
First start to the Far West, in 1832
Design of forming a National Gallery
Numbers of Tribes visited, and number of Paintings and other things collected
Probable extinction of the Indians
Former and present numbers of
The proper mode of approaching them, and estimating their character
Certificates of Government Officers, Indian Agents, and others, as to the fidelity of the Portraits and other Paintings
Letter No. 215
Mouth of Yellow Stone
Distance from St Louis
Difficulties of the Missouri
Politeness of Mr Chouteau and Major Sanford
Fur Company's Fort
Indian Epicures
New and true School for the Arts
Beautiful Models
Letter No. 3
Mouth of Yellow Stone
19
Character of Missouri River
Beautiful prairie shores
Picturesque clay bluffs
First appearance of a steamer at the Yellow Stone, and curious conjectures of the Indians about it
Fur Company's Establishment at the mouth of the Yellow Stone
M'Kenzie
His table and politeness
Indian tribes in this vicinity
Letter No. 4
Mouth of Yellow Stone
26
Upper Missouri Indians
General character
Buffaloes
Description of
Modes of killing them
Buffalo-hunt
Chardon's Leap
Wounded bull
Extraordinary feat of Mr M'Kenzie
Return from the chase
Letter No. 5
Mouth of Yellow Stone
33
Author's painting-room, and characters in it
Blackfoot chief
Other Blackfoot chiefs, and their costumes
Blackfoot woman and child
Scalps, and objects for which taken
Red pipes, and pipe-stone quarry
Blackfoot bows, shields, arrows, and lances
Several distinguished Blackfeet
Letter No. 6
Mouth of Yellow Stone
40
Medicines or mysteries
Medicine-bag
Origin of the word medicine
Mode of forming the medicine-bag
Value of the medicine-bag to the Indian, and materials for their construction
Blackfoot doctor or medicine-man. His mode of curing the sick
Different offices and importance of medicine-men
Letter No. 7
Mouth of Yellow Stone
48
Crows and Blackfeet
General character and appearance
Killing and drying meat
Crow lodge or wigwam
Striking their tents and encampment moving
Mode of dressing and smoking skins
Crows
Beauty of their dresses
Horse-stealing or capturing
Reasons why they are called rogues and robbers of the first order, etc.
Letter No. 8
Mouth of Yellow Stone
56
Further remarks on the Crows
Extraordinary length of hair
Peculiarities of the Crow head, and several portraits
Crow and Blackfeet women
Their modes of dressing and painting
Differences between the Crow and Blackfoot languages
Different bands
Different languages, and numbers of the Blackfeet
Knisteneaux
Assinneboins, and Ojibbeways
Assinneboins a part of the Sioux
Their mode of boiling meat
Pipe-dance. Wi-jun-jon (a chief) and wife
His visit to Washington
Dresses of women and children of the Assinneboins
Knisteneaux (or Crees)
Character and numbers, and several portraits
Ojibbeways
Chief and wife
Letter No. 9
Mouth of Yellow Stone
67
Contemplations of the Great Far West and its customs
Old acquaintance
March and effects of civilisation
The "Far West."
The Author in search of it
Meeting with "Ba'tiste," a free trapper
Letter No. 10
Mandan Village, Upper Missouri
75
A strange place
Voyage from Mouth of Yellow Stone down the river to Mandans
Commencement
Leave M'Kenzie's Fort
Assinneboins encamped on the river
Wi-jun-jon lecturing on the customs of white people
Mountain-sheep
War-eagles
Grizzly bears
Clay bluffs, "brick-kilns," volcanic remains
Red pumice stone
A wild stroll
Mountaineer's sleep
Grizzly bear and cubs
Courageous attack
Canoe robbed
Eating our meals on a pile of drift-wood
Encamping in the night
Voluptuous scene of wild flowers, buffalo bush and berries
Adventure after an elk
War-party discovered
Magnificent scenery in the "Grand Detour."
Stupendous clay bluffs
Table land
Antelope shooting
"Grand Dome."
Prairie dogs
Village
Fruitless endeavours to shoot them
Pictured bluff and the Three Domes
Arrival at the Mandan village
Letter No. 11
Mandan Village
91
Location
Village
Former locations, fortification of their village
Description of village and mode of constructing their wigwams
Description of interior
Beds
Weapons
Family groups
Indian garrulity
Jokes
Fire-side fun and story-telling
Causes of Indian taciturnity in civilised society
Letter No. 12
Mandan Village
99
Bird's-eye view of the village
The "big canoe." Medicine-lodge
A strange medley
Mode of depositing the dead on scaffolds
Respect to the dead
Visiting the dead
Feeding the dead
Converse with the dead
Bones of the dead
Letter No. 13
Mandan Village
104
The wolf-chief
Head-chief of the tribe
Several portraits
Personal appearance
Peculiarities
Complexion
"Cheveux gris."
Hair of the men
Hair of the women
Bathing and swimming
Mode of swimming
Sudatories or vapour baths
Letter No. 14
Mandan Village
113
Costumes of the Mandans
High value set upon them
Two horses for a head-dress
Made of war-eagle's quills and ermine
Head-dresses with horns
A Jewish custom
Letter No. 15
Mandan Village
119
Astonishment of the Mandans at the operation of the Author's brush
The Author installed medicine or medicine-man
Crowds around the Author
Curiosity to see and to touch him
Superstitious fears for those who were painted
Objections raised to being painted
The Author's operations opposed by a Mandan doctor, or Medicine-man, and how brought over
Letter No. 16
Mandan Village
127
An Indian beau or dandy
A fruitless endeavour to paint one
Mah-to-toh-pa (the four bears), second chief of the tribe
The Author feasted in his wigwam
Viands of the feast
Pemican and marrowfat
Mandan pottery
Robe presented
Letter No. 17
Mandan Village
133
Polygamy
Reasons and excuses for it
Marriages, how contracted
Wives bought and sold
Paternal and filial affection
Virtue and modesty of women
Early marriages
Slavish lives and occupations of the Indian women
Pomme blanche
Dried meat
Caches
Modes of cooking, and times of eating
Attitudes in eating
Separation of males and females in eating
The Indians moderate eaters
Some exceptions
Curing meat in the sun, without smoke or salt, The wild Indians eat no salt
Letter No. 18
Mandan Village
142
Indian dancing
"Buffalo dance."
Discovery of buffaloes
Preparations for the chase
Start
A decoy
A retreat
Death and scalping
Letter No. 19
Mandan Village
148
Sham fight and sham scalp dance of the Mandan boys
Game of Tchungkee
Feasting
Fasting and sacrificing
White buffalo robe
Its value
Rain makers and rain stoppers
Rain making
"The thunder boat"
The big double medicine
Letter No. 20
Mandan Village
159
Mandan archery
"Game of the arrow."
Wild horses
Horse-racing
Foot war-party in council
Letter No. 21
Mandan Village, Upper Missouri
163
Mah-to-toh-pa (the four bears)
His costume and his portrait
The robe of Mah-to-toh-pa, with all the battles of his life painted on it
Letter No. 22
Mandan Village
175
Mandan religious ceremonies
Mandan religious creed
Three objects of the ceremony
Place of holding the ceremony
Big canoe
Season of commencing, and manner
Opening the medicine lodge
Sacrifices to the water
Fasting scene for four days and nights
Bel-lohck-nah-pick (the bull dance)
Pohk-hong (the cutting or torturing scene)
Eh-ke-nah-ka-nah-pick (the last race)
Extraordinary instances of cruelty in self-torture
Sacrificing to the water
Certificates of the Mandan ceremonies
Inferences drawn from these horrible cruelties, with traditions
