Crow people at Fort Clarke

Crow people at Fort Clarke. Warrior (perhaps Chief Eripuass, Rotten Belly) with feathers in his hair wearing a bighorn leather, woman with animal-skin cape holding bow and arrows, and seated medicine man or shaman. Two braves on horseback behind them. Indiens Corbeaux (Amerique). Adapted from a painting by Karl Bodmer in Travels in the Interior of North America, by Prince Maximilian of Wied, 1839. Handcoloured woodcut by L. Markaert after an illustration by Karl Bodmer from Auguste Wahlen's Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde, (Manners, Customs and Costumes of all the People of the World) Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1845. Wahlen was the pseudonym of Jean-Francois-Nicolas Loumyer (1801-1875), a writer and archivist with the Heraldic Department of Belgium

Picture No

14017147

Media ID

46699134

Size

7222px x 4343px (6.8MB)

Credit

©Florilegius/Mary Evans

Source

Karl Bodmer