Wesh Cubb or the Sweet: A Chippeway Chief

Published by E.C. Biddle, Philadelphia, 1836

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Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB

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Portrait. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Page measures 20.5" x 14". Beautiful portrait from the folio edition of McKenney and Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America". As Superintendent of the Indian Trade Bureau, Thomas McKenney wanted to document the rapidly disappearing culture of the American natives. He activated the project, sponsored by the War Department, by commissioning writer James Hall and Charles Bird King, a renowned American portraitist. King painted the prominent Indians while they visited Washington D.C. as treaty delegates. Most of the original oil paintings were destroyed by fire in the Smithsonian Museum in 1865. These lithographs, published 1842-58, are all that remain and are still hailed as one of the best visual records of influential Native Americans of the nineteenth century. Wesh Cubb was known for his leadership and prowess as a warrior but also for his son Ozaawindib, a notorious A-go-kwa, or two-spirit. Minor aging along edges, light scattered foxing. Minor offsetting. One of many Native American portraits in our collection.…

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Bibliographic details

Title
Wesh Cubb or the Sweet: A Chippeway Chief
Author
MCKENNEY, Thomas L. & HALL, James
Publisher
E.C. Biddle, Philadelphia
Publication year
1836
Condition
very good
Binding
unbound
Illustrator
Lehman and Duval
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19TH CENTURY, LITHOGRAPHY, NATIVE AMERICAN, PORTRAITURE

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