The aboriginal port-folio : a collection of portraits of the most celebrated chiefs of the North American Indians, 1835-1836
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- Created Date
- 1823; 1825; 1826; 1827; 1833; 1835
- Description
Lewis attended the most important councils with Wisconsin tribes and painted these portraits of many of their leaders. When he returned to Philadelphia, he made lithographs from his paintings and published a small number of them monthly in 1835 and 1836.
- Creator
Lewis, James Otto, 1799-1858
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Collection
- Z: Accessions
- Publisher
- James Otto Lewis
- Subjects
- Native Americans
Indian dance
Portraits
Rites and ceremonies
Fox
Ho-Chunk
Iowa
Miami
Ojibwe
Ottawa
Potawatomi
Sauk
Shawnee - Location
- Ashland County; Brown County; Crawford County; Fond du Lac County; Winnebago County
Wisconsin - Language
- English
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- Chicago citation style
- Lewis, James Otto, 1799-1858. The aboriginal port-folio : a collection of portraits of the most celebrated chiefs of the North American Indians, 1835-1836. 1823; 1825; 1826; 1827; 1833; 1835. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/2109. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Lewis, James Otto, 1799-1858, (1823; 1825; 1826; 1827; 1833; 1835) The aboriginal port-folio : a collection of portraits of the most celebrated chiefs of the North American Indians, 1835-1836. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/2109
- MLA citation style
- Lewis, James Otto, 1799-1858. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/2109>.