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Anthropology

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

A Blackfoot Doctor

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 1001
Description

Oil painting depictin group of Indians surrounding man lying on ground with man in elaborate bear skin costume is dancing around him.

Dates: 1853 - 1870

A Sioux Village.

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 1003

An Indian Treaty, Sioux.

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 993

Ball Play, Choctaw

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 1012
Scope and Contents

Depicts large group of Indians on field carrying lacrosse sticks playing game. Mounted on painted green cardboard. Catlin cat. (1871) #176.

Dates: 1853-1870

"Bel-Lohk-na-pic" (The Bull Dance)

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 1005
Description

Oil painting depicting center of village with Indians sitting on wigwams and grouped around men dancing wearing elaborate bull-horned headdresses.

Dates: 1853 - 1870

Buffalo Chase with Bows and Lances / LR "G. Catlin"

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 1002
Scope and Contents

Depicts Indians on horseback with bows and lances chasing buffalo herd over a hill. Sketches on the upper Missouri in 1832, Sioux Indians. In stained wood frame. Catlin cat. (1871) #145.

Dates: 1855

Chief of Tribe with Club, Winnebago / Mid "Catlin P."

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Identifier: Art Survey No. 1007
Description

Oil painting depicting four full length portraits of warriors, two on right wearing robes and carrying clubs, one on left wearing backskin, smoking pipe, man on far left wearing robe and carrying club.

Dates: 1853 - 1870

Comanche Village

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 1000
Description

Oil painting depicting village of tepees with various industries going on in foreground. On the Red River in Texas, formed 1,200 skin tents, curiously painted and embroidered. Mounted on painted green matte cardboard. Catlin cat. (1871) #137.

Dates: 1853-1870

Deer Hunting by Torchlight, Ojibbeways

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 1014
Scope and Contents

Depicts two men in forest landscape at right, one has a burning torch on his head. Missouri. Mounted on painted green cardboard. Catlin cat. (1871) #269.

Dates: 1853-1870