Detail View: C. Szwedzicki: The North American Indian Works: IOWA 1840

Work Record ID: 
333
Reproduction Record ID: 
333
Work Class: 
portraits
Work Type: 
print
Title: 
North American Indian Costumes: (1564-1950)
Title Type: 
collective title
Title: 
IOWA 1840
Title Type: 
constructed title
Measurements: 
12.15 x 5.70 in (30.86 x 14.48 cm) on sheet 17.55 x 12.50 in (44.58 x 31.75 cm)
Measurement Type: 
dimensions
Material: 
paper (fiber product)
Material Type: 
support
Inscription: 
Below Image Right: IOWA 1840
Inscription: 
Above Image Right: PLATE 19
Creator: 
Howe, Oscar, 1915-1983
Creator Dates: 
1915-1983
Creator Nationality: 
Nakota (Yankton) // Apache (Inde)
Creator Name Variant: 
Trader Boy (Mazuha Hokshina)
Creator Type: 
personal name
Creator Role: 
illustrator
Creator: 
King, Charles Bird, 1785-1862
Creator Dates: 
1785-1862
Creator Nationality: 
American
Creator Type: 
personal name
Creator Role: 
painter
Creator: 
Inman, Henry, 1801-1846
Creator Dates: 
1801-1846
Creator Nationality: 
American
Creator Type: 
personal name
Creator Role: 
painter
Date: 
1952
Location: 
Washington (D.C.)
Repository: 
Art & Music Department, Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County, Cincinnati, Ohio
Repository Type: 
current repository
ID Number: 
19
ID Number Type: 
plate number
ID Number: 
R391 ffJ17 Vol. 1
ID Number Type: 
call number
Style Period: 
Plains Indian
Style Period: 
Indian art--North America
Culture: 
Native American
Culture: 
Nakota (Yankton)
Culture: 
Sauk (Osakiwug)
Culture: 
Iowa (Pahodja)
Subject: 
Breechcloths
Subject: 
Feathers
Subject: 
Fringe
Subject: 
Garters
Subject: 
Leggings
Subject: 
Moccasins
Subject: 
Armbands
Subject: 
Beadwork
Subject: 
Lances
Subject: 
Necklaces
Subject: 
Ribbons
Subject: 
Grizzly claw necklaces
Subject: 
Headdresses
Subject: 
Blankets
Subject: 
Hides and skins
Subject: 
Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809
Subject: 
Trade silver
Subject: 
Bracelets
Subject: 
Mantles (Clothing)
Subject: 
Keokuk, ca. 1780-1848
Subject: 
Peace medals
Subject: 
Inman, Henry, 1801-1846
Subject: 
King, Charles Bird, 1785-1862
Subject: 
Andre, Father, 1623-1715
Subject: 
La Salle, Rene Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687
Subject: 
Brass bells
Subject: 
Hides and skins--Bison, American (White)
Related Work: 
Jacobson, Oscar Brousse, 1882-1966. North American Indian Costumes: (1564-1950) / Illustrations by Oscar Howe. Nice (France): C. Szwedzicki, 1952.
Description: 
Excerpt from North American Indian Costumes, Vol. 1, p. 16: The Iowas are now an almost extinct tribe. They belong to the Sioux family and probably sprang from the Winnebago linguistic branch of that family. They are closely related to the Otos, Missouris, and Poncas. All seem to have come from their ancient home north of the Great Lakes. The Iowas experienced many vicissitudes and wandered far afield, for they are reported in different localities by Father Andre in 1676, La Salle in 1682, Lewis and Clark in 1804, and others. Father Andre says that they were very poor, their greatest wealth consisting of "ox hides and red calumets". Their traditions place them for a time near the Red stone quarries in Minnesota, and they appear to have manufactured and traded peace pipes early. Le Sueur invited the neighbouring Iowas to settle around Fort l'Huillier when he built it, in 1701, in Minnesota because they were industrious and accustomed to cultivate the earthy. They also trapped and supplied the traders with skins of bear, deer, beaver, racoon and otter. In 1824, they ceded their lands on the Missouri and later moved to Kansas, eventually settling on a reservation in Oklahoma. In religion, habits and customs, they differ little from the other Winnebago tribes. Like other Plains Indians who had built no immunity against it, they suffered heavy losses from smallpox brought into the country by the Whites. The Iowa costume illustrated here is made up of various elements of Indian and white origin. Indian chiefs took great pride in the large coins and medals presented them by white officials and they wore them as ornaments and as badges of honor.
Description: 
Map references: Washington (D.C.) Text references: North American Indian Costumes, Vol. 1, pp. 9, 16. References: This print is based on a portrait of Keokuk and his son painted by Charles Bird King (1785-1862) in Washington (D.C.) in 1827. Keokuk was a Sauk (Osakiwug). Lithographs based on the King portrait of Keokuk and his son (Cosentino: 353) appear in the following editions of McKenney, Thomas Loraine, 1785-1859, and Hall, James, 1793-1868. The History of the Indian Tribes of North America: Philadelphia: F. W. Greenough, 1838-1844. Philadelphia: J. T. Bowen, 1848-1850. James Otto Lewis (1799-1858) painted a full-length portrait of Keokuk at the Treaty of Prairie du Chien, held at Prairie du Chien (Wis.) in 1825 (Lewis, 1850, p. 8). A full-length portrait of Keokuk by Inman after Lewis, formerly in the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, (Peabody No. 82-51-10\28287) is listed in the D. Harold Byrd, Jr. Collection in 1983 (Viola, 1983, Plate 32). George Catlin (1796-1872) painted portraits of Keokuk at the Sauk and Fox Village (Iowa) in 1835 (Truettner Gallery No. 1) (Truettner, 1979, pp. 31, 34, 142-143). Peter Rindisbacher (1806-1834) painted a watercolor portrait of Keokuk in 1829 which is in the collection of the West Point Museum (Acc. No.: 552). Thomas Martin Easterly (1809-1882) made Daguerreotype portraits of Keokuk in 1847. These images are in the Missouri Historical Society, Newberry Library, and Smithsonian Institution (Kilgo, 1994, pp. 119-141). For Daguerreotype portraits of Keokuk and his son by Thomas Easterly, see Kilgo, 1994, pp. 119, 126, 127.
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