Ka-Ta-Wa-Be-Da, a Chippeway chief / drawn, printed & coloured at J.T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment. – Antique Wall Art
(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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Step back in time with Ka-Ta-Wa-Be-Da, a Chippeway chief / drawn, printed & coloured at J.T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Ka-Ta-Wa-Be-Da, a Chippeway chief / drawn, printed & coloured at J.T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment.
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Identified in its title as Ka-Ta-Wa-Be-Da, a Chippeway chief, this hand-colored lithograph shows its sitter in full dress. J.T. Bowen drew, printed, and colored it at his Philadelphia establishment, and it was published around 1841, when his shop was among the city's busiest producers of hand-colored Native portraits. Plates like this were often sold as single sheets or bound into large volumes on Indian tribes, which fed public interest in Native dress and ornament. Today the print serves as a record of Ojibwe clothing of the period and also as a product of a trade that presented Native people through a non-Native lens.
| Created / published | Philada. : published by J.T. Bowen, c1841. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1840-1850.Lithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850. |
| Subjects | Ka-Ta-Wa-Be-Da. Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1840-1850. Ojibwa Indians--Clothing & dress--1840-1850. Tribal chiefs--United States--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,164 × 1,461 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217413 |
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