Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the - North American Indian

Klappentext The notes! letters and drawings of an artist who spent the 1830s documenting Native American tribes in the United States. Zusammenfassung The American Romantic artist George Catlin (1796–1872) travelled widely during the 1830s, documenting the vanishing cultures of the Native Americans. In 1841 he published this two-volume account of his experiences, including over 300 drawings of people, artifacts, and animals. Volume 1 focuses on the Crow, Blackfeet and Mandan peoples. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Wyoming, birth-place of the author; 2. Mouth of Yellow Stone; 3. Mouth of Yellow Stone: character of Missouri River; 4. Mouth of Yellow Stone: Upper Missouri Indians; 5. Mouth of Yellow Stone: author's painting-room; 6. Mouth of Yellow Stone: medicines or mysteries; 7. Mouth of Yellow Stone: Crows and Blackfeet; 8. Mouth of Yellow Stone: further remarks on the Crows; 9. Mouth of Yellow Stone: contemplations of the Great Far West and its customs; 10. Mandan Village, Upper Missouri: a strange place; 11. Mandan Village: location; 12. Mandan Village: bird's eye view of the village; 13. Mandan Village: the wolf-chief; 14. Mandan Village: costumes of the Mandans; 15. Mandan Village: astonishment of the Mandans at the operation of the author's brush; 16. Mandan Village: an Indian beau or dandy; 17. Mandan Village: polygamy; 18. Mandan Village: Indian dancing; 19. Mandan Village: sham fight and sham scalp dance of the Mandan boys; 20. Mandan Village: Mandan archery; 21. Mandan Village, Upper Missouri: Mah-to-tah-pa (the four bears); 22. Mandan Village: Mandan religious ceremonies; 23. Minataree Village: location and numbers; 24. Minataree Village: Crow, in the Minataree village; 25. Little Mandan Village, Upper Missouri: an Indian offering himself for a pillow; 26. Mouth of Teton River: Sioux of Dah-co-ta; 27. Mouth of Teton River: custom of exposing the aged; 28. Mouth of Teton River: difficulty of painting Indian women; 29. Mouth of Teton River: voluntary torture; 30. Mouth of Teton River: Indian weapons and instrument of music; 31. Mouth of Teton River: Bisons (or buffaloes) description of....

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• Authors: George Catlin, Catlin George
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.09.2011
• EAN: 9781108033176
• ISBN: 978-1-108-03317-6
• No. of pages: 412
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - North American History; Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians 2 Volume Set
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; USA, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Indigenous Peoples, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Diaries, letters and journals, Relating to Native American people, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Native American Studies, HISTORY / Indigenous / General