Existing comment:
After Karl Bodmer, Alexandre Zschokke, engraver
Indian Utensils and Arms
1840
hand-colored aquatint
Prince Maximilian purchased three painted bison robes from Mató-Tópe. Warriors painted their exploits on these robes and learned that white traders eagerly sought to purchase these items. Mató-Tópe showed Prince Max some of his prized possessions, which Bodmer included in this print: "feather-caps and ornaments, drums, everything painted and decorated in a beautiful manner, objects of great value in the eyes of these people."
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, Gift of the Enron Art Foundation, 1986.49.542.21 |