Indians offering food to the dead / Capt. S. Eastman, U.S. Army, delt. ; chromolith. of J.T. Bowen, Philada. – Antique Print
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Indians offering food to the dead / Capt. S. Eastman, U.S. Army, delt. ; chromolith. of J.T. Bowen, Philada. comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Indians offering food to the dead / Capt. S. Eastman, U.S. Army, delt. ; chromolith. of J.T. Bowen, Philada.
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Captain Seth Eastman of the U.S. Army drew this scene of mourners leaving food beside an elevated scaffold that holds a body, and J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia reproduced it as a chromolithograph. It appeared as the third plate in Henry R. Schoolcraft's *Indian Tribes of the United States*, published in Philadelphia in 1851. Scaffold burial was practiced by several Plains and Great Lakes peoples, and offerings of food reflected the belief that the dead still needed sustenance on their journey. Because the image was made by an outside observer, it records a ceremony that Euro-American audiences often misunderstood, and its details are worth reading closely.
| Created / published | [published 1851] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1850-1860.Chromolithographs Color 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Title transcribed from list of plates. Illus. in: Indian Tribes of the United States / collected and prepared ... by Henry R. Schoolcraft L.L.D. Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1851, pl. 3. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Spiritual life--1850-1860. Scaffold burial--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,653 × 3,826 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219744 |
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