Plate 1
Mandans in ordinary dress
Catlin, 1836
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Plate 1 Mandans in ordinary dress Catlin, 1836 |
"I here present (Plate I.) three of my Mandan portraits in their ordinary costume, - a chief, a warrior, and a young woman, - lest the reader should form a wrong opinion of their usual appearance, from the bizarre effects of the figures disguised with clay and other pigments in the ceremony to be described in this work. "... I was received with great kindness by their chiefs and by the people, and afforded every facility for making my portraits and other designs and notes on their customs [...] I was enabled to obtain the most complete interpretation of chiefly all that I witnessed." (Catlin 5) |