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

Work Record ID: 
400
Reproduction Record ID: 
400
Work Class: 
portraits
Work Type: 
print
Title: 
Bloody Hand, chief of the tribe
Title Type: 
preferred title
Title: 
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians.
Title Type: 
collective title
Measurements: 
4.75 x 3.10 in (12.07 x 7.87 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: 
Arikara Village (S.D.)
Location Type: 
creation site
Repository: 
Archives and Rare Books Library, University Libraries, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Repository Type: 
current repository
ID Number: 
82
ID Number Type: 
plate number
ID Number: 
123
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: 
Hide painting
Subject: 
Picture-writing
Subject: 
Quillwork
Subject: 
Scalp locks
Subject: 
Shirts, Ceremonial
Subject: 
Trade bead necklaces
Subject: 
Indians of North America--19th century
Subject: 
Indians in art
Subject: 
Earrings
Subject: 
Feather headdresses
Subject: 
Arikara (Starrahhe)
Subject: 
Knives
Subject: 
Bloody Hand (Stan-au-pat)
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, p. 204. Caption from Truettner catalog of Catlin's Indian Gallery. Entry from Catlin's 1848 catalog reads, "Stan-au-pat, the Bloody Hand, Chief of the tribe. His face painted red with vermilion, scalping-knife in his hand; wearing a beautiful dress." Originally painted in 1832 (Truettner, 1979, p. 176). This print does not indicate the vermilion face paint of the original oil.
Reproduction Rights Statement: 
(c)University of Cincinnati Digital Press 1997
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