Bodmer, Karl | "Dacota Woman and Assiniboin Girl"
Bodmer, Karl
Dacota Woman and Assiniboin Girl. [Tab. 9]. Paris, Coblenz, and London: [1839-1842]
Handcolored aquatint (sheet size: 619 x 457 mm). Engraving by Desmadryl after Bodmer, blindstamp.
A composite from drawings made by Bodmer on 1 June 1833 and October 1833.
The woman is Chan-Chä-Uiá-Teüin ("Woman of the Crow Nation"), whose portrait was painted at Fort Pierre. Her dress is trimmed with white beads and has a fringe of twisted metal cones ("tinklers") at the hem, which would have made a musical sound as she walked. Over the dress she wears a painted summer robe of buffalo skin with the hair removed, the colorful pattern on the robe is called a box and border style. The child is an unusual subject for Bodmer, a little Blackfoot girl but living with the Assiniboins, perhaps a captive taken during a skirmish. She wears leggings and ornaments that are smaller versions of those worn by adults.
Karl Bodmer's images show great versatility and technical virtuosity and give us a uniquely accomplished and detailed picture of a previously little understood (and soon to vanish) way of life.
REFERENCE
Graff 4648; Howes M443a; Pilling 2521; Sabin 47014; Wagner-Camp 76:1
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Bodmer, Karl
Dacota Woman and Assiniboin Girl. [Tab. 9]. Paris, Coblenz, and London: [1839-1842]
Handcolored aquatint (sheet size: 619 x 457 mm). Engraving by Desmadryl after Bodmer, blindstamp.
A composite from drawings made by Bodmer on 1 June 1833 and October 1833.
The woman is Chan-Chä-Uiá-Teüin ("Woman of the Crow Nation"), whose portrait was painted at Fort Pierre. Her dress is trimmed with white beads and has a fringe of twisted metal cones ("tinklers") at the hem, which would have made a musical sound as she walked. Over the dress she wears a painted summer robe of buffalo skin with the hair removed, the colorful pattern on the robe is called a box and border style. The child is an unusual subject for Bodmer, a little Blackfoot girl but living with the Assiniboins, perhaps a captive taken during a skirmish. She wears leggings and ornaments that are smaller versions of those worn by adults.
Karl Bodmer's images show great versatility and technical virtuosity and give us a uniquely accomplished and detailed picture of a previously little understood (and soon to vanish) way of life.
REFERENCE
Graff 4648; Howes M443a; Pilling 2521; Sabin 47014; Wagner-Camp 76:1
Condition Report:
Condition as described in catalogue entry.
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