Buffalo Hunt, On Snow Shoes, plate 15 from the "North American Indian Portfolio"

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Photo by John Bentham.
Buffalo Hunt, On Snow Shoes, plate 15 from the "North American Indian Portfolio"
Photo by John Bentham.
Artist/Maker (American, 1796 – 1872)
Publisher (American)
Date1845
MediumColor lithograph on paper
DimensionsComposition: 13 15/16 × 18 7/16 in. (35.4 × 46.9 cm) Sheet: 15 9/16 × 20 1/2 in. (39.6 × 52 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams, Class of 1891
Object number1959.118
Not on view
DescriptionIn this plate is illustrated the mode alluded to in the preceding page, of the Indians hunting in the depth of winter, running on their snow-shoes, which support them on the surface of the snow, whilst the great weight of the buffalo and other animals sinks them down and fastens them in the drifts of the snow, where they fall easy victims to the arrows and lances of their cruel pursuers. The Indians are induced to slay these noble animals for their skins, which, when manufactured into robes, are vended to white men in vast quantities, for rum and whiskey; and as the fur is longer and more valuable, and the animals more easily slain at this inclement season of the year than at any other, it is then that the wholesale slaughter takes place, which is rapidly thinning their ranks, and will soon extinguish their species in North America.
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Alternate Titles North American Indian Portfolio
Provenance 1959: Hamilton College, by gift of Samuel Hopkins Adams.
Inscribed "Catlin. del:" at lower left in typeset; "No. 15./ THE SNOW-SHOE DANCE./ Published at James Ackerman's Lithographic Rooms, 304 Broadway, N.Y." at lower center in typeset; "ASXS8" on verso at left center edge in pencil; "HC 114" on verso at lower left in pencil.
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Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.117
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George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.106
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Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.120
Photo by John Bentham.
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Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.108
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Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.122
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Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
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Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.112
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Date: 1845
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.105
Photo by John Bentham.
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Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.109
Photo by John Bentham.
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Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.113
Photo by John Bentham.
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Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.121
Photo by John Bentham.
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Date: 1845
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.127