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Poncah Chief: Shoo-de-ga-ka (counterproof)

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Poncah Chief: Shoo-de-ga-ka (counterproof)

Description: This collection consists of roughly 252 unbound illustrations of Indians in both North and South America, by George Catlin, and other items all related to Catlin's unpublished manuscript The North Americans in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1868-1892.
Call number: HM 35183 (92)
Creator: Catlin, George (1796-1872)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Frank Glenn, November 9, 1954. The collection was previously owned by Colonel Archibald Rogers of Hyde Park, New York.
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