Mexkemahuastan. Chief of the Gros-ventres de Prairies

by Karl Bodmer

$950 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

From the scarce Leipzig edition printed from the original copper-plates. Limited in number, the prints from the Leipzig edition are more scarce than, and compare favorably to, the first edition. David C. Hunt, Karl Bodmer and the American Frontier, Imprint/Spring 85, p.1 Bodmer painted this portrait of Mexkemáuastan `Stirring Iron' , an Atsina or Gros Ventre chief and medicine man, on about 5 August 1833. The keelboat Flora stopped opposite an Atsina camp at the

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