Image and Imagination: Art of the American West
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Karl Bodmer, Sauk & Fox Indians, lithograph, c. 1832 Collection of the Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri - St. Louis |
There are large numbers of Indians here encamped about our tent, and they are some of the most uncivilized and war-like of all our tribes. The women and men are some of them half-naked, and nearly all are in their native costumes of blanket and buffalo robe, with bow and arrow, or carbine with revolvers. . . They are the finest riders in the world, and when seen moving about on their ponies and horses with their bright-colored blankets, are the most picturesque people imaginable. Vincent Colyer, "Shall the Red-Men be Exterminated?" Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art, September 1869. |
Charles Deas, Wa-kon-cha-hi-re-ga, oil on canvas, c. 1840. Collection of the Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri - St. Louis |
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