Tag: American Indians

North America as it used to be, envisioned up all the way back to 1859. Plates from Paul Kane’s “Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America: from Canada to Vancouver’s island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territory and back again.”

PORTRAIT OF A HALF-BREED CREE GIRL. (sic). Paul Kane, artist. Vincent Brooks, lithographer. Frontispiece. Image 10 of Paul Kane’s 1858 work Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America: from Canada to Vancouver’s island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territory and back again. Published in London by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. Collections of the Fisher Library at the University of Toronto. https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofarti00kane_0/page/n9/mode/1up
Number three – Indian Pipe. Page 14, Image 13 of Paul Kane’s 1858 work Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America: from Canada to Vancouver’s island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territory and back again. Published in London by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. Collections of the Fisher Library at the University of Toronto. https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofarti00kane_0/page/14/mode/1up
Number 6. – Group of Buffaloes. Page 143, Image 143 of Paul Kane’s 1858 work Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America: from Canada to Vancouver’s island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territory and back again. Published in London by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. Collections of the Fisher Library at the University of Toronto. https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofarti00kane_0/page/143/mode/1up
FLAT-HEAD WOMAN AND CHILD. (sic). Paul Kane, artist. Vincent Brooks, lithographer. Page 235, Image 236 of Paul Kane’s 1858 work Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America: from Canada to Vancouver’s island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territory and back again. Published in London by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. Collections of the Fisher Library at the University of Toronto. https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofarti00kane_0/page/n235/mode/1up
PORTRAIT OF MAN-CE-MUCKT. Paul Kane, artist. Vincent Brooks, lithographer. Page 296, Image 297 of Paul Kane’s 1858 work Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America: from Canada to Vancouver’s island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territory and back again. Published in London by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. Collections of the Fisher Library at the University of Toronto. https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofarti00kane_0/page/n296/mode/1up
PORTRAIT OF KEE-AKEE-KA-SAA-KA-WOD WITH PIPE-STEM. Paul Kane, artist. Vincent Brooks, lithographer. Page 436, Image 437 of Paul Kane’s 1858 work Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America: from Canada to Vancouver’s island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territory and back again. Published in London by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. Collections of the Fisher Library at the University of Toronto. https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofarti00kane_0/page/n436/mode/1up
GROUP OF SIX INDIAN CHIEFS. Paul Kane, artist. Vincent Brooks, lithographer. Page 460, Image 461 of Paul Kane’s 1858 work Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America: from Canada to Vancouver’s island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territory and back again. Published in London by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. Collections of the Fisher Library at the University of Toronto. https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofarti00kane_0/page/n460/mode/1up
MEDICINE PIPE-STEM DANCE. Paul Kane, artist. Vincent Brooks, lithographer. Page 463, Image 464 of Paul Kane’s 1858 work Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America: from Canada to Vancouver’s island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territory and back again. Published in London by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. Collections of the Fisher Library at the University of Toronto. https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofarti00kane_0/page/n463/mode/1up
PORTRAIT OF AN ESQUIMAUX. Paul Kane, artist. Vincent Brooks, lithographer. Page 475, Image 475 of Paul Kane’s 1858 work Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America: from Canada to Vancouver’s island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territory and back again. Published in London by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. Collections of the Fisher Library at the University of Toronto. https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofarti00kane_0/page/n475/mode/1up
WHITE MUD PORTAGE. Paul Kane, artist. Vincent Brooks, lithographer. Page 485, Image 486 of Paul Kane’s 1858 work Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America: from Canada to Vancouver’s island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territory and back again. Published in London by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. Collections of the Fisher Library at the University of Toronto. https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofarti00kane_0/page/n485/mode/1up

Lithographs made from Kane’s drawings which were done from life.

Portraits of Native Americans from before a lot of people decided to go out west and it was never the same again. From George Catlin’s work, “O-Kee-Pa; a Religious Ceremony; and other Customs of the Mandans,” an account of an annual religious ceremony practiced by the Mandan tribe. Published in 1867.

Page 62. George Catlin, artist. Simonau and Toovey, lithographers. Collections of the University of Pittsburgh Library System.  Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/okeepareligiousc00catl/page/n62/mode/1up
Page 71. George Catlin, artist. Simonau and Toovey, lithographers. Collections of the University of Pittsburgh Library System.  Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/okeepareligiousc00catl/page/n70/mode/1up
Page 95. George Catlin, artist. Simonau and Toovey, lithographers. Collections of the University of Pittsburgh Library System.  Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/okeepareligiousc00catl/page/n94/mode/1up

These were published towards the end of Catlin’s life, but the images and the text refer back to a visit in July of 1832 when Catlin was joined by, among others, a J. Kipp who was agent for the Missouri Fur Company.