
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Conditions of North American Indians: The Complete Volumes I and II: Ilustrated, Paperback/George Catlin
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Vezi oferta la elefant.roThis masterpiece was written by George Catlin between the years 1832 and 1839 as a collection of notes, letters and paintings which illustrate his travels throughout North America. His paintings comprised the first record to illustrate the Plains Indians and their homelands to the west of the Mississippi River. It wasn't until Catlin's work that allowed the American colonists of the eastern states to visualize and truly understand the conditions of the Pawnees, the Blackfeet and Crows, the Sioux and even the wild Comanches; learning the ways of native life and their customs. It still holds to this day a great anthropological value and information that brings a modern reader to understand how foreign colonization affected their culture and livelihood. Contains both Volume 1 & volume 2 and includes all Illustrations in Black & White Crows and Blackfeet---General character and appearance - 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 Different languages, and numbers of the Blackfeet Knisteneaux-Assinneboins, and Ojibbeways - Ojibbeways - Chief and wife - Assinneboins a part of the Sioux - Wi-jun-jon (a chief) and wife - His visit to Washington Mode of depositing the dead on scaffold - Respect to the dead - Visiting the dead - Feeding the dead - Converse with the dead - Bones of the dead Costumes of the Mandans - High value set upon them - Made of war-eagles'











