
North American Indians (Penguin Classics)
From 1831 to 1837, George Catlin traveled extensively among the native peoples of North America—from the Muskogee and Miccosukee Creeks of the Southeast to the Lakota, Mandan, and Pawnee of the West, and from the Winnebagos and Menominees of the North to the Comanches of eastern Texas. Studying their habits, customs, and modes of life, he made copious notes and numerous sketches of ceremonies, buf...
Series: Penguin Classics
Paperback: 560 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics (February 24, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0142437506
ISBN-13: 978-0142437506
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 1.1 x 7.7 inches
Amazon Rank: 1018675
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“The writer has excellent writing skills and is able to describe what he observed in vivid detail. I would have given it a 5 star rating if he would have included sketches of some of the Indians he painted . I would also have been helpful if he incl...”
alo hunts, symbols, and totems. Catlin’s unprecedented fieldwork culminated in more than five hundred oil paintings and his now-legendary journals, which, as Peter Matthiessen writes in his introduction, “taken together... constitute the first, last, and only ‘complete’ record of the Plains Indians ever made at the height of their splendid culture, so soon destroyed by traders’ liquor and disease, rapine and bayonets.”A one-volume edition of Catlin's journalsIllustrated with more than fifty reproductions of Catlin's incomparable paintings
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