The North American Indians, Band 2Digital Scanning Inc, 01.02.2001 - 528 Seiten The North American Indians by George Catlin being letters and notes on their manners customs and conditions. Volume two of two, both Volumes contain 320 illustrations from the John Grant 1926 edition. George Catlin was an American painter and writer. In 1823 he gave up his law practice to pursue his self-taught art, painting portraits in Philadelphia, Washington, D. C. and Albany, New York. After meeting a tribal delegation of Native Americans from the Far West he became eager to preserve the vanishing tribes and customs of the Native Americans through his art. Catlin traveled throughout the American West from 1832 to 1840. He sketched and painted hundreds of portraits, village scenes, religious rituals and games and wrote of his encounters with these fascinating people as he worked. The North American Indians features fifty-eight letters and 320 illustrations from the author's original portraits, all in a two-volume set. Volume 1 ISBN 978-1582182735 Volume 2 ISBN 978-1582182742. |
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LETTER No 34 | 25 |
LETTER No 35 33 | 90 |
LETTER No 37 41 | 91 |
LETTER No 39 51 | 95 |
LETTER No 40 55 | 95 |
LETTER No 42 72 | 100 |
LETTER No 43 | 73 |
LETTER No 49 | 131 |
LETTER No 50 | 147 |
Letter No 51 | 154 |
LETTER No 52 | 160 |
LETTER No 53 | 171 |
LETTER NO 54 | 182 |
LETTER No 55 | 213 |
LETTER No 56 | 235 |
LETTER NO 44 888 | 87 |
LETTER No 46 100 | 98 |
LETTER No 47 | 111 |
LETTER No 48 | 123 |
LETTER No 57 | 247 |
LETTER No 58 | 252 |
APPENDIX A | 293 |
APPENDIX C | 303 |
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