(AMERICAN INDIANS PRINTS) Catlin George; artist Wi Jun Jon

Sale 2287 - Lot 40

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(AMERICAN INDIANS--PRINTS.) Catlin, George; artist. Wi-Jun-Jon, an Assinneboin Chief: Going to Washington, Returning to His Home. Hand-colored lithograph, 22 3/4 x 16 1/4; several short repaired tears in caption area, crease through lower right corner, 1/2-inch chip on bottom edge. New York: James Ackerman, [1845]

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One of the more desirable plates from the North American Indian Portfolio. According to Catlin in his Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe: "This man was taken to that city in 1832, in a beautiful Indian dress, by Major Sanford, the Indian agent, and returned to his country the next spring, in a Colonel's uniform. He lectured a while to his people on the customs of the whites, when he was denounced by them for telling lies, which he had learned of the whites, and was, by his own people, put to death at the mouth of the Yellow Stone."