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CATLIN, George (1796-1872). North American Indians. Philadelphia: Leary, Stuart and Company, 1913.
2 volumes, royal 8vo. 180 color-printed plates including 3 maps (one folding). Original red pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (light rubbing at extreme ends and corners, front joints a bit over opened at titles).
Later edition. Catlin’s work was first published in 1841 and reprinted many times, serving as the basis for much Plains ethnology. “Catlin visited forty-eight tribes in the Mississippi and Missouri valleys and on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains during his eight years’ travel. His object was to paint portraits of men and women in every tribe, together with views of villages, games, etc. The two volumes are a series of fifty-eight letters written while the author was among the Indians. They form an unusually entertaining narrative of travels in an almost unknown region, and at the same time are of great value in their descriptions of Indian life” (Larned 616). Howes C-241.