EditorialSioux chief Shoo-de-ga-cha, Smoke, in buffalo robe outside a teepee 87 and his wife or squaw Hee-la'h-dee, Pure Fountain 88. Her arms and neck are tattooed by pricking with gunpowder and vermilion. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, ...
EditorialSioux men dancing the Scalp Dance after a victory. They wave scalps stretched on poles, brandish knives, pipes and tomahawks, their bodies decorated with vermilion and charcoal tattoos. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and ...
EditorialSioux chiefs: warrior Tehan-dee, Tobacco 92, chief of the Yanc-ton band Toh-ki-ee-to, Stone with Horns, with neck and arms tattooed in gunpowder and vermilion 93. Sioux daughter of Black Rock, Wi-looh-tah-eeh-tchah-ta-mah-nee, Red Thing that Touches in...
EditorialSioux brave and medicine man Hongs-kay-dee, the son of Shoo-de-ga-cha, Chief Smoke 90, with his skin tattooed vermilion, and one of his four young wives, Mong-shong-shaw, Bending Willow 89, in a deerskin dress and decorated buffalo robe. Handcoloured l...
EditorialFortitude (Study for the "Cabinet du roi" [King's Study]). Francesco Primaticcio; Italian, 1504-1570. Date: 1541-1545. Dimensions: 219 x 152 mm. Brush and vermilion wash, heightened with lead white, over stylus incising, on cream laid paper toned pink,...