Péhriska-Rúhpa. Moennitarri Warrior in the Costume of the Dog Danse

by Karl Bodmer

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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.18 . Perhaps the greatest image to emerge from the picturing of the American West, and certainly Bodmer's most famous, this highly-charged portrait of Péhriska-Rúhpa Two Ravens presents the

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