War Dance of the Sauks and Foxes
by MCKENNEY, Thomas L. & HALL, James
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- very good
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia: F.W. Greenough, 1838. unbound. very good. J.T. Bowen. View. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Page measures 14" x 19.25". Some toning and a few chips to lower right corner. Some tape residue along top and bottom edges.<br/><br/> Scene from the folio edition of McKenney and Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America". As Superintendent of the Indian Trade Bureau, Thomas McKenney wanted to document the rapidly disappearing culture of the American natives. He activated the project, sponsored by the War Department, by commissioning writer James Hall and Charles Bird King, a renowned American portraitist. King painted the prominent Indians while they visited Washington D.C. as treaty delegates. Most of the original oil paintings were destroyed by fire in the Smithsonian Museum in 1865. These lithographs, published 1842-58, are all that remain and are still hailed as one of the best visual records of influential Native Americans of the nineteenth century. This war dance scene served as the frontispiece to the "The Indian Tribes of North America" and also to one of the earliest western travel books, "Travels in North America during 1834, 1835, and 1836" (Volume 2), by Charles Augustus Murray. One of many Native American portraits in our collection.<br/><br/>
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Argosy Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 213779
- Title
- War Dance of the Sauks and Foxes
- Author
- MCKENNEY, Thomas L. & HALL, James
- Illustrator
- J.T. Bowen
- Format/Binding
- Unbound
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- F.W. Greenough
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1838
- Keywords
- McKenney & Hall, Sauks, Foxes
Terms of Sale
Argosy Book Store
All items are offered net, subject to prior sale. Returns accepted within 7 days of receipt--please contact us first. Payment by Visa , Mastercard & American Express. Appropriate sales tax will be added for all N.Y. State residents
About the Seller
Argosy Book Store
Biblio member since 2004
New York, New York
About Argosy Book Store
We are a large retail store, with 6 floors of out-of-print and rare books, (including, Americana, modern first editions, history of medicine and science), antique maps and prints, autograph manuscripts, letters & signatures.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Unbound
- A book or pamphlet which does not have a covering binding, sometimes by original design, sometimes used to describe a book in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...