Detail View: George Catlin: The Printed Works: Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians.

Work Record ID: 
362
Reproduction Record ID: 
362
Work Class: 
bird's-eye views
Work Type: 
print
Title: 
Bird's-eye view of the Mandan village, 1800 miles above St. Louis
Title Type: 
preferred title
Title: 
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians.
Title Type: 
collective title
Measurements: 
3.40 x 4.85 in (8.16 x 12.32 cm)
Measurement Type: 
dimensions
Material: 
paper (fiber product)
Material Type: 
support
Technique: 
engraving (printing process)
Creator: 
Catlin, George, 1796-1872
Creator Dates: 
1796-1872
Creator Nationality: 
American
Creator Type: 
personal name
Creator Role: 
painter
Date: 
1842
Location: 
Mandan Village (N.D.)
Location Type: 
creation site
Repository: 
Archives and Rare Books Library, University Libraries, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Repository Type: 
current repository
ID Number: 
47
ID Number Type: 
plate number
ID Number: 
502
ID Number Type: 
standard number
ID Number: 
ARB RB E77.C4 1842 v.1
ID Number Type: 
call number
Style Period: 
Art, American--19th century
Style Period: 
realism
Culture: 
American
Subject: 
Mandan Village (N.D.)--Views
Subject: 
Mandan (Numakaki)
Subject: 
Indians of North America--19th century
Subject: 
Indians in art
Subject: 
Horses
Subject: 
Shields
Subject: 
Dogs
Subject: 
Shield stands
Subject: 
Feather headdresses
Subject: 
Bull boats
Subject: 
Earthlodges
Subject: 
Medicine lodges
Subject: 
Palisades (Picket)
Subject: 
Scaffold burial
Subject: 
Shrines
Subject: 
Skulls--Bison, American
Subject: 
Votive offerings
Related Work: 
Catlin, George, 1796-1872. Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians. Third Edition. London: Published for the Author by Tilt and Bogue, Fleet Street, 1842.
Relation Type: 
larger entity
Description: 
Described in Vol. I, pp. 87-89. Caption from Truettner catalog of Catlin's Indian Gallery. Entry from Catlin's 1848 catalog reads, Bird's Eye view of the Mandan village, 1800 miles above St. Louis, on the west bank of the Missouri River. The lodges are covered with earth, and so compactly fixed by long use, than men, women, and children recline and play upon their tops in pleasant weather. These lodges vary in size from forty to fifty feet in diameter, and are all of a circular form. The village is protected in front by the river, with a bank forty feet high, and on the back part by a piquet of timber set firmly in the ground. Back of the village, on the prairie, are seen the scaffolds on which their dead bodies are laid to decay, being wrapped in several skins of buffalo, and tightly bandaged. In the middle of the village is an open area of 150 feet in diameter, in which their public games and festivals are held. In the centre of that is their 'Big Canoe,' a curb made of planks, which is an object of religious veneration. Over the Medicine (or mystery) Lodge are seen hanging on the tops of poles several sacrifices to the Great Spirit of blue and black cloths, which have been bought at great prices, and there left to hang and decay." Probably painted originally in the period 1837-1839 (Truettner, 1979, p. 287). See also plate 2 in O-Kee-Pa.
Reproduction Rights Statement: 
(c)University of Cincinnati Digital Press 1997
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