Engraved Representations of North American Tribes around the Mississippi, 1787

1787 · Native Peoples

Engraved Representations of North American Tribes around the Mississippi, 1787

Name: Engraved Representations of North American Tribes around the Mississippi, 1787
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13599-71
Price: 505 USD
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Date: 1787
Kind: Native Peoples
Size: 39 × 24 cm (15.4 × 9.4 in)
Condition: Good. Very good condition with wide marges. Light soiling and browning. Please study the images carefully.
Period: The Early Republic
Reference: BG-13599-71

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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.

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About this piece

Two North American Indian couples on one sheet, original engravings made for Bankes's New System of Geography, "Published by Royal Authority", and dated 1787. The running title is engraved across the top of the sheet, and each of the two views carries its own caption beneath.

The upper view is captioned "A Man & Woman of the Chipeways to the eastward of the Mississippi in North America." A man stands at the left with a drawn bow, wearing a feathered headdress, a necklace and a breechcloth, while a woman in a long dress stands beside a tree at the right with a child at her side, with rocky hills and water behind them.

The lower view is captioned "A Man & Woman of the Nawdowessies to the westward of the Mississippi in North America." A man in a plumed headdress, with leggings and a long-barreled gun, faces a woman in a loose robe who leads a small child by the hand, under a spreading tree with distant hills. The Chippeway are the Ojibwe, and the Nawdowessies are the Sioux, shown here as eighteenth century European engravers imagined them on either side of the Mississippi.

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