CATLIN, George.
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians.
George Catlin's Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians
London: Published for the Author by David Bogue, 1844.
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Finely bound example of this detailed anthropological history. Royal octavo, two volumes bound in three quarter contemporary polished calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, modern morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, with several hundred illustrations from Catlin's original paintings. Fourth edition. In good condition.
George Catlin (1796–1872) was a nineteenth-century American painter and writer best known for documenting Indigenous peoples of North America through portraiture and travel-based ethnographic description. His Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians, based on journeys in the 1830s among Plains communities, combines portraits, scenes of ceremonial and daily life, and descriptive commentary that became “the basis for much Plains ethnology,” even as it reflects the period’s ideological frameworks. Although often criticized for its romanticizing tone and “vanishing” narrative, the work remains valuable to historians and anthropologists for its detailed record of material culture and social practice, as well as for the sustained fieldwork that produced it.
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians.
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