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., and 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.
Print reproduces a 1905 painting by Remington called 'The smoke signal' that depicts three Crow Native American men with three horses, one roan, one black, and one white with a red right hand print (as a brand) on its left buttock and a bird's feather tied into its tail; two of the Crow men are dismounted, kneeling on the hill-side signalling with smoke
Publisher:
Reproduced by the Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, Chicago by permission of the copyright owner, the Remington Art Memorial
Subject (Topic):
Crow Indians, Indians of North America, Great Plains, and West (U.S.)
