Title:
The last war-whoop
Creator/Contributor:
Tait, A. F. (active ca. 1862), artist (artist)
Currier, Nathaniel (1813-1888), American, lithographer (lithographer)
Currier & Ives (active 1857-1907), American, publisher (publisher)
Maurer, Louis (active ca. 1890), undetermined (undetermined)
Date:
c1856
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1450--FR
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
52 x 67.7 cm., visible image
Content/Description:
Scene on prairie following battle with white trapper on horseback looking at fallen Indian warrior who has been shot in chest
and gives his last war cry. Other trappers gather horses in distance.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Painted by A.F. Tait; (LR, within image): L. Maurer; (LR): Lith. N. Currier, N[ew] Y[ork];
(LC): Entered... 1856 by N. Currier... N[ew] Y[ork]; (below title): New York, published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau Street.
Subjects:
Animals;
Clothing & dress;
Fur trade;
Horses;
Indians of North America
Genre/Format:
Lithographs, color