George Catlin (American/ Pennsylvania, 1796-1872). "Archery of the Mandans", chromolithograph, published in 1845. Lithograph depicts a group of Mandan Indian male tribesmen in a landscape setting wearing loincloths and feathered headdresses, many of them with bows and arrows having just shot or preparing to shoot, with a pile of spears and animal pelts to lower right corner and a hill in background carrying several figures on horses. Framed approximately 27 1/8" x 32 3/4", sight size approximately 15 1/8" x 20 7/8"._x000D_
Note: George Catlin is widely regarded as being the first person to observe and document Plains Indians in their natural territory during his travels to the American West in the mid 19th century. In 1845, after many years of painting Native Americans on journeys up the Mississippi River and to the Western United States, he published a 25 plate folio entitled "Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio" from which these lithographs originate.

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