A descriptive catalogue of Catlin's Indian gallery : containing portraits, landscapes, costumes, &c., and representations of the manners and customs of the North American Indians. Collected and painted entirely by Mr. Catlin ... Exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London.

  • Catlin, George, 1796-1872.
Date:
[1840]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A descriptive catalogue of Catlin's Indian gallery : containing portraits, landscapes, costumes, &c., and representations of the manners and customs of the North American Indians. Collected and painted entirely by Mr. Catlin ... Exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LANDSCAPES. 311. St. Louis, (from the river below, in 1836,) a town on the Mississippi, with 25,000 inhabitants. 312. View on Upper Mississippi, beautiful Prairie Bluffs, everywhere covered with a green turf. 313. “ Bad Axe'’ battle ground, where Black ITawk was defeated by General Atkinson, above Prairie du Cliien. Indians making defence and swimming the river. 314. Chippeways gathering wild rice, near the source of St. Peter’s ; shelling their rice into their bark canoes, by bending it over, and whipping it with sticks. 315. View near Prairie la Crosse,” beautiful Prairie Bluffs, above Prairie du Chien—Upper Mississippi. 316. “ Cap o’lail” (garlic cape), a bold and picturesque promontory on Upper Mississippi. 317. Picturesque Bluffs above Prairie du Chien, Upper Mississippi. 318. “ Pike’s Tent,” the highest Bluff on the river, Upper Mississippi. 319. View of the Cornice Rocks,” and “ Pike’s Tent,” in distance, 750 miles above St. Louis, on Upper Mississippi. 320. Lover s Leap,’ on Lake Pepin, Upper Mississippi, a rock 500 feet high, where an Indian girl threw herself off a few years since, to avoid marrying the man to whom she was given by her father. 321. Falls of St. Anthony, 900 miles above St. Louis; perpendicular fall eighteen feet, Upper Mississippi. 322. Madame Ferrebault’s Prairie from the river above; the author and his companion descending the river in a bark canoe, above Prairie du Chien, Upper Mississippi; beautiful grass covered bluffs. 323. “ Little Falls,” near the Falls of St. Anthony, on a small stream. 324. “ La Montaigne que tremps YEau,” Mississippi, above' Prairie du Chien. 325. Cassville, below Prairie du Chien, Upper Mississippi; a small village just commenced, in 1835. 326. Dubuque, a town in the lead mining country. 327. Galena, a small town on Upper Mississippi.