Antique Print of Tokacou 'Yankton Sioux Warrior' by McKenney, 1836

1836 · Native Peoples

Antique Print of Tokacou 'Yankton Sioux Warrior' by McKenney, 1836

Name: Antique Print of Tokacou 'Yankton Sioux Warrior' by McKenney, 1836
Brand: McKenney & Hall
SKU: BG-12590
Price: 2685 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1836
Maker: McKenney & Hall
Kind: Native Peoples
Technique: Engraved
Size: 51.5 × 35.5 cm (20.3 × 14 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning, blank verso. Original text page included. Please study images carefully.
Period: The Early Republic
Reference: BG-12590

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

To-Ka-Con, a Yankton Sioux chief, in a large hand-colored lithograph from Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America, published in 1836. The plate is lettered "To-Ka-Con a Sioux Chief" with the publisher's imprint and the copyright notice beneath.

The portrait is a bust: a man in three-quarter view wearing a feathered headdress with dark and red-tipped feathers, beaded earrings and a double necklace of blue and white beads. His face is painted red, and a deerskin shirt with broad beaded bands on the sleeves and a green-fringed edge covers his shoulders. He holds a saber with a brass hilt across his chest. The color is applied by hand over the lithographed image and the sheet has wide margins.

The portrait derives from the Indian Gallery of paintings assembled by the Superintendent of Indian Trade, and the History of the Indian Tribes of North America became the best-known portfolio of portraits of leading Native American figures of the period.

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