Antique Print of a Young Girl of the Mandan Tribe '2' by Prichard, 1843

Name: Antique Print of a Young Girl of the Mandan Tribe '2' by Prichard, 1843
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12284-5
Price: 170 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1843
Kind: Native Peoples
Size: 21.5 × 13 cm (8.5 × 5.1 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning. Minor wear, blank verso. Please study image carefully.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: North Dakota
Reference: BG-12284-5

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

A young Mandan woman, an original hand-colored print dated 1843 from the Histoire Naturelle de l'Homme comprenant des recherches sur l'influence des agens physiques et moraux (..) by J. C. Prichard. The caption reads "Sha-Ko-Ka. Jeune fille de la nation des Mandans", and the engraver's signature appears at the lower left of the image.

She is shown in a bust portrait with long loose hair of a cool gray-black, falling over the shoulders and framing a face tinted warm brown with small red marks on the cheeks and at the parting. She wears a pale fringed dress with blue bands tracing the neckline and sleeves, several rows of white beads around the neck, and long blue pendant earrings. The background is left blank within a soft oval vignette, in the manner of the ethnographic plates of the period.

The Mandan are a Native American people of the Great Plains who lived for centuries mainly in what is now North Dakota. This plate is companion to another Mandan girl in the same series, "Mi-Neek-Ee-Sunk-Te-Ka".

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