Mähsette-Kuiuab Chief of the Cree-Indians

by Karl Bodmer

$600 · 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 Sketched by Bodmer at Fort Union in mid-October 1833, Mähsette-Kuiuab or `Le Sonant' as he was known by the French was a powerful Cree chief and medicine man. He apparently used a bear skull as a

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