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North American Indians
Catlin, George; Matthiessen, Peter
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Description for North American Indians
paperback. Num Pages: 560 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 384.
From 1831 to 1837, George Catlin traveled extensively among the native peoples of North America-from the Muskogee and Miccosukee Creeks of the Southeast to the Lakota, Mandan, and Pawnee of the West, and from the Winnebagos and Menominees of the North to the Comanches of eastern Texas. Studying their habits, customs, and modes of life, he made copious notes and numerous sketches of ceremonies, buffalo hunts, symbols, and totems. Catlin's unprecedented fieldwork culminated in more than five hundred oil paintings and his now-legendary journals, which, as Peter Matthiessen writes in his introduction, 'taken together...constitute the first, last, and only 'complete' ... Read more
From 1831 to 1837, George Catlin traveled extensively among the native peoples of North America-from the Muskogee and Miccosukee Creeks of the Southeast to the Lakota, Mandan, and Pawnee of the West, and from the Winnebagos and Menominees of the North to the Comanches of eastern Texas. Studying their habits, customs, and modes of life, he made copious notes and numerous sketches of ceremonies, buffalo hunts, symbols, and totems. Catlin's unprecedented fieldwork culminated in more than five hundred oil paintings and his now-legendary journals, which, as Peter Matthiessen writes in his introduction, 'taken together...constitute the first, last, and only 'complete' ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780142437506
SKU
V9780142437506
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About Catlin, George; Matthiessen, Peter
George Catlin (1796-1873) abandoned his law practice to live among the Plains Indians of North America, acquiring their languages and studying their habits, customs, and mode of life. His huge collection of pictures, artifacts, and findings were exhibited around the United States and Europe to great acclaim. Peter Matthiessen was the cofounder of the Paris Review and is the author ... Read more
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