A detailed black-and-white print of Indigenous people in canoes on a river and a Native village with multiple structures on a high bluff above the river.

A Mandan Village (Upper Missouri)

Karl Bodmer (1809-1893)

Date

ca. 1860
Object Type

Prints
Medium

Steel engraving
Contributors

Published by Herrmann Julius Meyer
Dimensions

Image: 4 5/16 x 6 5/16 in.
Sheet: 5 x 6 3/8 in.
Inscriptions

Recto:
l.l. beneath image: DRAWN AFTER NATURE
l.c.: A MANDAN VILLAGE \ UPPER MISSOURI
l.l. at bottom: Published for HERRMANN J. MEYER. 164. William Str. NEW YORK.
l.r. beneath image: For the Proprietor HERMANN J. MEYER \ Copyright secured according to ACT of CONGRESS
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Accession Number

1965.90
Copyright

Public domain

Location: Off view

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