Monkaushka was a renowned Sioux Chief. He attended the intertribal peace council in Washington in 1837 as a member of the Sioux commission that signed a peace treaty with the United States ceding to the United States much of their land east of the Mississippi River.<\/p>\n
Charles Bird King was an American portrait painter, employed by the War Department to paint the portraits of Indian treaty delegates visiting Washington, D.C.\u00a0 Thomas Loraine McKenney served as Superintendant of the Indian Trade Bureau, and subsequently as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for a total of 16 years, and it was his idea for the government to commission portraits of the Indians.\u00a0 King made most of the 143 paintings completed between 1822 and 1842.\u00a0 McKenney was moved by a concern that the tribes and their culture were threatened by settlers and unsympathetic state and federal government officials.\u00a0 He also sought to create a written record for future generations, collaborating with writer James Hall to produce a three-volume work on the life and culture of the American Indian, History of the Indian Tribes of North America<\/strong>, which included reproductions of King\u2019s paintings.\u00a0 Most of the original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, so the lithographs in McKenney and Hall\u2019s history constitute the only record of the likenesses of some of the prominent Indian leaders of the 19th century.<\/p>\n John T. Bowen was an artist and lithographer who operated in New York from 1834 to 1838 and in Philadelphia thereafter, until around 1856.\u00a0 Among his best-known works are the lithographs for John James Audubon\u2019s octavo edition of The Birds of America <\/strong>1840-44) and the folio plates from Audubon\u2019s The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America<\/strong> (1842-1848).\u00a0 He also published the lithographs for McKenney and Hall\u2019s History of the Indian Tribes of North America<\/strong> (1838), as well as a series of 20 views of Philadelphia after J.C. Wild and John T. Bowen\u2019s United States Drawing Book<\/strong> with 37 views of locales in the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions.<\/p>\n Condition:\u00a0 Generally very good, the paper uniformly a bit toned overall, with the usual light wear and handling. Minor tape residue upper margin verso apparently not affecting the front.<\/p>\n References:<\/p>\n Bennett, Whitman. A Practical Guide to American Book Collecting (1663-1940).<\/em>\u00a0 New York: Bennett Book Studios, 1941.\u00a0 Read Books, 2007. p. 79.<\/p>\n Field, Thomas Warren. An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography, A Catalogue of Books, Relating to the American Indians, in the Library of T.W. Field.<\/em>\u00a0 New York: Scribner, Armstrong, & Co., 1873.\u00a0 992.<\/p>\n Groce, George C. and Wallace, David H.\u00a0 The New-York Historical Society\u2019s Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860.<\/em>\u00a0 New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969.\u00a0 pp. 70-71 (Bowen).<\/p>\n Horan, James D. The McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians.<\/em>\u00a0 New York: Bramhall House, 1986.\u00a0 pp. 13-15, 314-317.<\/p>\n Howes, Wright. U.S.Iana (1650-1950).<\/em>\u00a0 R.R. Bowker, 1978.\u00a0 M129.<\/p>\n Lipperheide, Franz von. 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\nJohn T. Bowen (c. 1801-c. 1856) (printer)
\nThomas L. McKenney and James Hall (editors)
\nMon-Ka-Ush-Ka, A Sioux Chief <\/strong>
\nfrom History of the Indian Tribes of North America<\/em><\/strong>
\nEdward C. Biddle; Frederick W. Greenough;\u00a0 Daniel Rice & James G. Clark, Philadelphia, 1836-37; 1838-42; 1844
\n18.25 x 12.25 inches overall
\n$700<\/p>\n