North American Indians Papeback -
by George Catlin
- New
From 1831 to 1837, George Catlin traveled extensively among the native peoples of North America from the Muskogee and Miccosukee Creeks of the Southeast to the Lakota, Mandan, and Pawnee of the West, and from the Winnebagos and Menominees of the North to the Comanches of eastern Texas. Studying their habits, customs, and modes of life, he made copious notes and numerous sketches of ceremonies, buffalo hunts, symbols, and totems. Catlin's unprecedented fieldwork culminated in more than five hundred oil paintings and his now-legendary journals, which, as Peter Matthiessen writes in his introduction, 'taken together... constitute the first, last, and only complete' record of the Plains Indians ever made at the height of their splendid culture, so soon destroyed by traders' liquor and disease, rapine and bayonets.'
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Details
- Title North American Indians
- Author George Catlin
- Binding Papeback
- Condition New
- Pages 522
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books , New York
- Date pp. xxxiii + 522, Maps
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 6665989
- ISBN 9780142437506 / 0142437506
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5.1 x 1.2 in (19.56 x 12.95 x 3.05 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Library of Congress subjects Indians of North America, Indians of North America - West (U.S.)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004269975
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
From 1831 to 1837, George Catlin traveled extensively among the native peoples of North America—from the Muskogee and Miccosukee Creeks of the Southeast to the Lakota, Mandan, and Pawnee of the West, and from the Winnebagos and Menominees of the North to the Comanches of eastern Texas. Studying their habits, customs, and modes of life, he made copious notes and numerous sketches of ceremonies, buffalo hunts, symbols, and totems. Catlin’s unprecedented fieldwork culminated in more than five hundred oil paintings and his now-legendary journals, which, as Peter Matthiessen writes in his introduction, “taken together... constitute the first, last, and only ‘complete’ record of the Plains Indians ever made at the height of their splendid culture, so soon destroyed by traders’ liquor and disease, rapine and bayonets.”
- A one-volume edition of Catlin's journals
- Illustrated with more than fifty reproductions of Catlin's incomparable paintings
