Title:
The headless Indian
Creator/Contributor:
Wilson, J. H. (active ca. 1865), artist (artist)
Leitch, R. P. (active ca. 1865), artist (artist)
Linton, W. J., engraver (engraver)
Date:
1865
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0502:11--A
Format:
print on paper mounted on board: engraving
10.5 x 17.5 cm., on mount 18.8 x 27.5 cm.
Content/Description:
Milton, Cheadle, and Assiniboine Indian boy come across headless body seated, cross-legged, in forest. The Indian apparently
died of starvation after eating his horse, although the circumstances of the missing head were not understood.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Title from caption in book. Printed (LL, within image): R.P. Leitch & T.H. Wilson; (LR, within image): W.J. Linton, sc. From
publication: The North-West passage by land (London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1865), pg. 2296.
Subjects:
Canada;
Expeditions & surveys;
Frontier & pioneer life;
Indians of North America
Genre/Format:
Engravings;
Illustrations;
Portraits