Jun 12 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2708 -

Sale 2708 - Lot 4

Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Only for One Evening, Indian Lecture, Chief Maungwudaus. Illustrated broadside, 21½ x 6¼ inches; wrinkling, moderate wear; completed in pencil for lecture at Mills Hall, Tuesday May 13. Philadelphia, 13 May [1856?]
Request Condition Report Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

Maungwudaus is described as being aged 57 years, and "having descended through the unbroken lineage of Chiefs and Medicine Men of the Chippeway Nation. . . . The College in which he was educated, is the Wilderness." As part of a national tour, he planned to "deliver a descriptive lecture on the origin of the North American Indians. . . . Irresistible proofs will be brought forward that the North American Indians are of Asiatic origins." His two sons would be singing their hymn "The Spiritual Railway," here given in English and Ojibwe language.

We have not located Mills Hall where this lecture was given, but Maungwudaus was in Philadelphia on 22 May 1856, and gave similar lectures in various Pennsylvania locations from March to August of that year. This broadside was printed in Philadelphia. No other examples traced.

Also in This Catalogue