Ball-play – Antique Wall Art
![Ball-play, [1844] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9c/9c0bdef91f22-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Ball-play. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Choctaw players are the focus of this color lithograph, which shows a ball play, the sport that later informed the modern game of lacrosse. The subjects are tied to Oklahoma, then part of the Indian Territory where the Choctaw had been relocated in the 1830s. George Catlin, who painted and sketched many Native communities he encountered, produced the image for his *North American Indian Portfolio*, published in London in 1844. Its value lies in recording a game that carried social, ceremonial, and competitive weight within Choctaw life.
| Created / published | [1844] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1840-1850.Lithographs Color 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Illus. in: North American Indian portfolio ; hunting scenes and amusements of the Rocky Mountains and prairies of America / from drawings and notes of the author made during eight years travel amongst forty-eight of the wildest and most remote tribes of savages of North America. London : [1844]. Published in: Many nations: A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Indian and Alaska native peoples of the United States / edited by Patrick Frazier and the Publishing Office. Washington : Library of Congress, 1996, p. 64. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Sports--Oklahoma--1830-1850. Choctaw Indians--Sports--1830-1850. Lacrosse--Oklahoma--1830-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,052 × 4,086 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218666 |
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