1891 AMERICAN INDIANS George Catlin INDIAN War SIOUX Weapon West Antique BUFFALO

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Historical Subject Matter Discussed/Illustrated in this Book (Partial Only, See Full Contents Below):
George Catlin Life Among the Indians Decorative Fine Binding Illustrated Victorian Native American Indian Indians America Tribes Plains War History Character Civilization Wyoming Massacre Indian Tribes Portraits Costumes Dress Sioux Indian Village Wigwams Drying Meat Indian Slavery Scalping Scalp-Day Scalps Warriors War Dress War Paint Weapons Shield Warfare War Whoop Flags Prisoners of War Calumet Pipe of Peace Medicine Men Wedding Rain Making Medicine Lodge Great White Medicine Medicine Bag Painting Wild Horses Buffalo Prairie Buffalo Hunt Chase Grizzly Bear Eagle Mandan Indians War Chief Riccarree Chief Indian Signal Fort Pierre Sioux Doctor Dog Canoe Pawnee War Party Falls of St. Anthony Fox and Wisconsin River St. Peter’s River Pipe Stone Quarry Stone Man Medicine Root Diggers Comanche Indians Deer Stalking Pawnee Picts Fort Gibson Cherokees Creeks Seminole Treaty Dade’s Massacre Capture of Osceola Neetmok Great Osage Orinoco Indians Amazon Cannibals South American Indians Red Indians in London Queen of England Red Indians in Paris
LIFE AMONG THE INDIANS. By George Catlin. Undated, has handwritten inscription dated 1891. Published by Gall and Inglis, London. 8” x 5” decorated cloth hardcover with gilt decoration. Illustrated. 352 pages.
Condition:
GOOD ANTIQUE CONDITION. Beautiful London edition binding as shown in photo. Front inner hinge cracked, rear hinge starting, text block still seated securely. Text is clean and complete. Foxing and toning, most prominent at front and back pages. No torn, loose or missing pages. Handwritten inscription at front dated 1891 at Sydney, Australia. Great example of this rare 19th-century George Catlin American Indian title.
Description:
LIFE AMONG THE INDIANS is a memoir of George Catlin’s experiences among the Indians of America. Originally written for a “youthful audience,” the author’s mature narrative style, attention to detail and compelling subject matter makes this a timeless work that will appeal to readers of all ages.
George Catlin (July 26, 1796 – December 23, 1872) was an American painter, author, and traveler who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West. Catlin was the first white man to depict Plains Indians in their native territory. He made five trips into the West during the 1830s. There, at the edge of the frontier, the young artist produced the most vivid and penetrating portraits of his career. During later trips along the Arkansas, Red and Mississippi rivers, as well as visits to Florida and the Great Lakes, he produced more than 500 paintings and gathered a substantial collection of artifacts.
Over the course of his career, Catlin visited more than fifty American Indian tribes, and also tribes in Central and South America. He witnessed sights that we can only imagine, or perhaps, if we’re lucky, see re-created in movies: Indians hunting buffalo, prairies on fire, Indians capturing wild horses on the Plains, sacred Indian rituals, ceremonies and dances …
In the pages of LIFE AMONG THE INDIANS are Catlin’s fascinating descriptions of Indian villages, daily life, dress, ceremonial costumes, weapons, the social structure of the tribes, and much more – all observed decades before the Indian wars of the later 19th century. In some instances, Catlin was one of the first white men the Indians he visited ever saw.
You can’t help but feel a sense of wonder as you read of the glorious scenes Catlin witnessed with his own eyes.
Catlin writes in the Preface:
I devoted eight years of my life in visiting about fifty tribes in North America, and brought home a collection of more than six hundred oil paintings (in all cases made from nature) of portraits, landscapes, and Indian customs, and every article of their manufacture, of weapons, costumes, wigwams, etc …
Not content with this collection I had thus made and shown to the world, I started again in 1853 for Venezuela, in South America, and subsequently traversed British and Dutch Guiana, the Valley of the Amazon, and other parts of Brazil, the Andes, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, California, to the Aleutian Islands, the Pacific Coast to the mouth of the Columbia, across the Rocky Mountains to Santa Fe, by the Rio de Norte to Matamoros in Mexico, to Guatemala, to Yucatan, to Cuba, and back to the starting point.
These last roamings, which have been performed in three successive campaigns, have been in some parts extremely difficult and hazardous, but full of interest, which was sufficient to enable me to overcome all obstacles, and from incidents, and people, and customs, and countries, that I have met with in these and my former campaigns, I shall endeavour, in this little work, to select and describe for the instruction and amusement of the youthful readers, such as will the most forcibly and correctly illustrate native man and his modes, on the American continent.
LIFE AMONG THE INDIANS is an incredible historical document. In these pages, the details of traditional Indian life, manners and customs are forever preserved by a man to whom the art observation was second nature. Catlin is remembered primarily for his paintings, but what he rendered in word and text is equally important.
To give you a full appreciation for the breadth and scope of this amazing work, I have created a summary of the Contents below, followed by a selection of historical illustrations from this rare antique book.
I hope you’ll take a moment to have a look.
Contents Are:
CHAPTER ONE ~ THE INDIANS OF AMERICA:
The Name “Indian” * General Character * Indian Civilisation * National Character
CHAPTER TWO ~ MY ADVENTURE WITH THE FIRST INDIAN I EVER SAW:
Wyoming Massacre * Valley of the Oc-qua-go * The Old Saw Mill Lick * A Chill, a Shiver, and False Alarm * John Darrow * Story of the Panther * Deer in the Lick * A Huge Indian * Red Indian at the Lick * A Run from the Lick * Johnny O’Neil’s “Gipsies” * George’s Indians * The Saddle of Venison * On-o-gong-way’s Story * The Kettle of Gold * My Tomahawk
CHAPTER THREE ~ HOW THE INDIANS BUILD THEIR WIGWAMS:
Indian Tribes * Portraits and Costumes * The Sioux * Sioux Village * Interior of Wigwams * Drying Meat * Indian Slavery * Scalp-Day * Skin-builders * Grass Builders * Dirt Builders * Bark Builders * Timber Builders
CHAPTER FOUR ~ INDIAN WARFARE – SCALPS AND SCALPING:
Warriors * War Dress and War Paint * War Weapons * Smoking the Shield * Warfare * War Whoop * War Whistles * Flags * Scalps and Scalping * Prisoners of War * Calumet (Pipe of Peace)
CHAPTER FIVE ~ MEDICINE MEN – “DRAWING FIRE FROM THE SUN”:
Medicine Men * Looking At the Sun * Medicine Wedding * Rain Makers * Rain Stoppers * Medicine Lodge * The “Great White Medicine” * Medicine Bag
CHAPTER SIX ~ HOW THE INDIANS PAINT THEMSELVES – THE PRAIRIES:
Indian’s Colour and Form * Indian’s Painting * Wild Horses and Buffaloes * The Prairies
CHAPTER SEVEN ~ CATCHING WILD HORSES – A BUFFALO HUNT:
Catching Wild Horses * Turning to the Left * Walking the Circle * Buffalo Chase * The Giant Bull
CHAPTER EIGHT ~ AN ADVENTURE WITH BEARS:
Stores Laid In * The Tame Eagle * Bivouacing * Melting the Coffee Pot * Freaks of the Eagle * Stoop of the Eagle * Grizzly Bear inspecting Us * Grizzly Bears overhauling us * Adieu to the Grizzlies
CHAPTER NINE ~ THE MANDAN INDIANS:
Mandan Singularities * Mandan War Chief * Lance of the Riccarree Chief * Mah-to-toh-pa and the Crow Chief * Indian Belles * Singular names * Tradition of the Flood * Destruction of the Mandans * Taking Leave of the Mandans * A Silent Gift
CHAPTER TEN ~ THE SIOUX INDIANS – A CHALLENGE!
Indian Signal * An excitement * Fort Pierre * The Sioux Doctor * Sioux Portraits * Jealous Sioux Chiefs * Story of the Dog * Death of Mah-to-chee-ga * Pursuit of the Dog * Death of the Dog * The Author Challenged
CHAPTER ELEVEN ~ PIPE STONE QUARRY – “THE THUNDER’S NEST” – “STONE MAN MEDICINE”:
Canoe Stolen * Pawnee War Party * Falls of St. Anthony * Fox and Wisconsin Rivers * St. Peter’s River * Pipe Stone Quarry * Stone Man Medicine * The Thunder’s Nest * Descent of St. Peter’s * Packs Stolen * The Root Diggers
CHAPTER TWELVE ~ A RIDE TO THE CAMANCHEES – A FALSE ALARM:
Ride to the Comanches * Charley Bought * Deer Stalking * The Author Decoyed * Story of the Panther * Walking the Circle * Creasing a Wild Horse * Indians About! * Stampado * A False Alarm * Indian Honesty
CHAPTER THIRTEEN ~ A SOLITARY RIDE ON “CHARLEY” ACROSS THE PRAIRIES:
Grand Review * Pawnee Picts * Fort Gibson * Charley saddled for St. Louis * Cherokees and Creeks * Seminole Treaty * Death of Seminole Chief * Dade’s Massacre * Capture of Osceola * A Sad Story * Neetmok * Death of Osceola * Charley’s Freaks * A Shake and a Roll in the Grass * Bivouac with Charley * Thunder Storm on the Prairies * Shooting the Buck * Charley tracking the Buck * Crossing the Great Osage
CHAPTER FOURTEEN ~ A JOURNEY DOWN THE ORINOCO – “THE HANDSOME DANCE”:
Caracas * The Scylla * Plains of Venezuela * Indians of Venezuela * The Handsome Dance * The Bolas * Catching the Wild Horse * Canoeing on the Orinoco * Opening of a Spathe * Pirates at the Spathe * Campanero (The Bell Bird) * The Wakened Sloth * Mouths of the Orinoco * Wigwams in the Trees
CHAPTER FIFTEEN ~ EN ROUTE FOR THE AMAZON – THE “MEDICINE GUN”:
Demerara * Paramaribo * Rio Essequibo * Howling Monkeys * Village * Treachery of Interpreter * Indian Hospitality * Indian superstition * Showing Revolver to the Indians * The Old Minie * The Young Revolver * Hill of the Shining Stones * Picking up a Rattlesnake * A Bed of Poppies
CHAPTER SIXTEEN ~ RIO TROMBUTAS – ADVENTURES WITH A TIGER AND A RATTLESNAKE:
Valley of Amazon * Head of the Trombutas * A Strong Lie* * Tiger Shooting * Bridling an Alligator * Assemblage of Monkeys * Monkeys’ Theft * Shooting a Rattlesnake * Beheaded Rattlesnake * Turtle Hunt * Turtles’ Eggs * Turtle Butter * Obidos * Santarem * Para
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN ~ STILL EN ROUTE FOR THE AMAZON – AN ADVENTURE WITH PECCARIES:
Caribbee Indians * Acary Mountains * Amazon slope of the Acary * The Equator * The Amazons * The American Cannibals * “Dirt Eaters” and “Stone Eaters” * Scenery of the Trombutas * Forest above a Forest * Music of the Trombutas * Treed by Peccaries * Fight with the Peccaries
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN ~ ON THE AMAZON:
South American Indians * Nest builders of the Amazon * The Steamer Marajo * Shores of the Amazon * Upper Forest * Nature’s Temple * Opera Glass on the Amazon * Passing Obidos * A Scene at Obidos * Indians on the Amazon * Indian Missions * Lingua Geral * Tribes of Upper Amazon
CHAPTER NINETEEN ~ THE INDIANS OF THE AMAZON – POISONED ARROWS:
Connibos * Shed Builders * Chetibos * Pottery of the Connibos * Blow Gun * Poisoned Arrows * Experiments with Poisoned Arrows * Fatality of Poisoned Arrows * Trouble with a Medicine Man * A Monkey Skinner * Unpainting Indan Portraits
CHAPTER TWENTY ~ RED INDIANS IN LONDON:
Indians in London * Indians before the Queen * Ioway Indians * An Indian Doctor’s Speech in London * Ealing Park * War Chief’s Speech to the Duke of Cambridge * Savage Devotion * Episcopal Clergymen talk with the Indians * War Chief’s reply to Clergymen * The Indians’ Belief * Charity of Indians * The Doctor’s Speech on Charity * Indian’s Charity on a steamer
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE ~ RED INDIANS IN PARIS:
War Chief’s Speech to the King and Queen * Louis Phillippe in an Indian Village
Remember folks, this is an 1891 original. This book is 130 years old.
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