A descriptive catalogue of Catlin's Indian gallery : containing portraits, landscapes, costumes, &c., and representations of the manners and customs of the North American Indians. Collected and painted entirely by Mr. Catlin ... Exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London.

  • Catlin, George, 1796-1872.
Date:
[1840]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A descriptive catalogue of Catlin's Indian gallery : containing portraits, landscapes, costumes, &c., and representations of the manners and customs of the North American Indians. Collected and painted entirely by Mr. Catlin ... Exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    361. View of Mackinaw, Lake Michigan, an U. S. outpost. 362. View in the Cross Timbers/' where General Leavenworth died, on the Mexican Borders. 363. View on Lower Missouri—alluvial banks falling in, with their huge cotton woods, forming raft and snags, 600 miles above St. Louis. 364. View on Upper Missouri—the “ Black Bird’s Grave.” Where “Black Bird,” Chief of the Omahas, was buried on his favorite war horse which was alive; 1100 miles above St. Louis. 365. View on Upper Missouri—Black Bird’s Grave,” a back view, prairies enamelled with wild flowers. 366. View on Upper Missouri—“ Brick Kilns,” volcanic remains, clay bluffs, 200 feet, supporting large masses of red pumice, 1900 miles above St. Louis. 367. View on Upper Missouri—Foot war party on the march, beautiful prairie—spies and scouts in advance. 368. View on Upper Missouri—Prairie Bluffs at sunrising, near Mouth of Yellow Stone. 369. View on Upper Missouri—Mouth of the Platte; its junction with the Missouri, 900 miles above St. Louis. 370. View on Upper Missouri—Magnificent Clay Bluffs, 1800 miles above St. Louis ; stupendous domes and ramparts, resembling some ancient ruins—streak of coal near the water’s edge, and my little canoe, with myself and two men, Bogard and Batiste, descending the river. 371. View on Upper Missouri—Cabane’s trading house -Fur Company’s Establishment, 930 miles above St. Louis, showing a great avalanche of the Bluffs. 372. View on Upper Missouri—View in the Grand Detour, 1900 miles above St. Louis. Magnificent clay Bluffs, with red pumice stone resting on their tops, and a party of Indians approaching Buffalo. 373. View on Upper Missouri—Beautiful Grassy Bluffs, 1100 miles above St. Louis. 374. View on Upper Missouri—Prairie Meadows burning, and a party of Indians running from it in grass eight or ten feet high. These scenes are terrific and hazardous in the extreme, when the wind is blowing a gale. ° 375. View on Upper Missouri—Prairie Bluffs burning. 376. View on Upper Missouri—“Floyd’s Grave,” where Lewis and Clarke