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Warpath – Antique Print

Warpath, [ca. 1885] — antique lithograph
Warpath, [ca. 1885]. Antique lithograph from the Native Americans 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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A chromolithograph label titled *Warpath*, printed around 1885, was made to sell tobacco, not to document Native life. Color lithography was cheap and widely used in the 1880s, and tobacco makers pasted such labels on packages and tins to catch the eye of buyers. Imagery of Native Americans was a popular choice in that trade, and images like this one drew on a romanticized frontier fantasy of warfare and the "vanishing" West rather than on the lives of the people depicted. Viewed today, the label is valuable as an example of how commercial art shaped public ideas about Indigenous people.

Created / published[ca. 1885]
Medium1 print : chromolithograph.
GenreLabels 1880-1890.Chromolithographs Color 1880-1890.
SubjectsIndians of North America--1880-1890. Tobacco products--1880-1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,447 × 1,150 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216124

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