Letters and Notes of the manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians, Vol. II

Name/Title

Letters and Notes of the manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians, Vol. II

Entry/Object ID

L2019.13.113

Description

Letters and Notes of the manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians. Volume II, In 1832 George Catlin set out on a journey into North America. He traveled widely across the western frontier to meet and live with some of the most remote Native American tribes. During this period Native Americans were under severe pressure as the U.S. government was implementing policies which forced many of them off their ancestral lands and onto reservations west of the Mississippi River. Catlin's collection of letters are a study of the forty-eight different tribes that he spent time with. His work provides a depiction of how various Native Americans lived, covering their homes, their weapons, their stories and jokes, their religious beliefs, how they treated the dead, their appearances, their celebrations and ceremonies. Volume II, concentrates on the tribes in Arkansas, Texas, and Florida. 266/Hardcover/Green/Box set containing two books/Illustrations

Collection

Robidoux Collection by Hugh Lewis

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Fox, Mandans, Fur Trading, Missouri River, Pawnee, Rocky Mountains, S. Louis, Missouri, Native American

Book Details

Author

Catlin, Geo

Place Published

City

Minneapolis

State/Province

Minnesota

Date Published

1965

Call No.

Robidoux CA

Notes

Copy No.: 1

Condition

Overall Condition

Fair

Maintenance

Maintenance History

Date

Jun 26, 2019

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Catlin, George