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Atotarho, the First Iroquois Ruler – Vintage Wall Art

Atotarho, the First Iroquois Ruler, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique lithograph
Atotarho, the First Iroquois Ruler, [no date recorded on caption card]. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare antique lithograph captures Atotarho, the First Iroquois Ruler in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Atotarho, the First Iroquois Ruler

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Atotarho appears here as a legendary Onondaga leader, a figure Haudenosaunee tradition remembers as feared and powerful before the Great Law of Peace united the Five Nations. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft presented him as the first ruler of the Iroquois, a claim that reflects the oral sources Schoolcraft drew on more than a settled historical record. The picture is a lithograph made from a drawing by Seth Eastman, an army officer and painter whose many illustrations for Schoolcraft's *History of the Indian Tribes of the United States* shaped how nineteenth-century readers pictured Native people.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print : lithograph.
SubjectsLithograph after drawing by Seth Eastman. Illus. in: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, History of the Indian Tribes of the United States, p. 188. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI (Schoolcraft--WORKS); BI (Indians); A/P/P I.; Ind. NA--Iroquois; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,404 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-143943

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