North American Indians
Subtitle: 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
By: by George Catlin ... With three hundred and twenty illustrations, carefully engraved from the author's original paintings.
Publisher: J. Grant
Published: 1926
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Subjects: Indians of North America.; Indians of North America -- West (U.S.)
Description: "A young lawyer turned portraitist, Catlin set out in 1830 from his home in Pennsylvania to record on canvas the indigenous tribes of North America and their way of life. His eight years among the major tribes of the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains resulted in his Indian Gallery, an enormous collection of artifacts as well as more than four hundred paintings, including portraits and scenes of tribal life. The resultant book, first published with uncoloured plates in 1841, is one of the most original, authentic and popular works on the subject"--abebooks website.
Notes: First edition, New York, 1841, published under title: Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians.