The big soldier

Description

Title: The big soldier
Creator: Bodmer, Karl, 1809-1893, ill
Contributor: Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von, 1782-1867.
Published / Created: [1956]
Publication Place: Chicago and United States Illinois Chicago
Publisher: The Lakeside Press
Abstract: Portrait presents Wahktageli, a Yanton Sioux/Nakota leader known to Bodmer and other Europeans and European Americans as Big Soldier. Reproduction of a painting by Bodmer. Another print, engraved by Zachée Prévost, from this painting was published in Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von, 1782-1867. Travels in the interior of North America (London: Ackermann and co., 1843); volume 2, plate 8.
Description: BEIN WA Prints +78: Imperfect: cover wanting. On sheet 56 x 40 cm.
Cover title.
One color plate of a Sioux warrior done by Karl Bodmer on May 26, 1833 during his expedition to America with Prince Maximilian of Wied.
Text in lower right of sheet with plate: By permission of the estate of Prince Maximilian zu Wied, reproduced by sheet fed gravure, at the Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company Chicago.
Extent: 2 pages : 56 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Portraits
Material: illustrations ;
Resource Type: text
Subject (Name): Wahktageli
Subject (Topic): Indians of North America
Dakota Indians
Subjects: Wahktageli > Portraits
Indians of North America > Portraits
Dakota Indians > Portraits
Dakota Indians
Indians of North America

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