BT
0989A
Dacota Woman and Assiniboin Girl
“Dacota Indianerin und Assiniboin Mädchen. Indienne
Dacota et Jeune Fille Assiniboine. Dacota Woman and
Assiniboin Girl.” - Tab. 9.
The Santee or Eastern Dacota Native American belong
to one of the three major
divisions of the Sioux people, residing in the extreme
east of Dacota, Minnesota. The Assiniboins belong to
the Siouan Native American language family of North
America, originally residing at the Northern Great Plains.
The girl was painted at Fort Union in October 1833,
the woman, Chan-Chä-Uiá-Teüin (“woman of the Crow Nation“),
painted at Fort Pierre in June.
The girl wears a dress trimmed in blue and white
beads. The woman's buffalo robe, painted in geometric
motifs of box and border style, was popular to Plains
Indians woman robe.
Aquatint and etching by Narcisse-Edmond-Joseph Desmadryl
(1801-?) after watercolour paintings and drawings by
Karl Bodmer, from Prince Maximilian's “Travels in the
Interior of North America, 1832-1834”.
First state (Ruud 2004, p 111) for a German or French
edition, printed by Bougeard, Paris, 1837-43, on large
wove paper (papier vélin), published by Jakob Hölscher,
Koblenz, 1837-41 or by Arthus Bertrand, Paris, 1840-43.
Plate mark: 50 x 37 cm, paper size: 60,5 x 44 cm
(printed on large paper). With blind stamp: C. BODMER.
Euro 3.800,-
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BT 0989B
Idem - Smaller paper size:
Plate mark: 50 x 37 cm, paper size: 46,1 x 32,5.
With blind stamp: C. BODMER. Passepartout.
Euro 3.200,-
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