Chon-Ca-Pe

by Thomas L. Mckenney, James Hall

$950 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A fine image of an Oto chief from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America': `One of the most important works ever published on the American Indians' Field ,` a landmark in American culture' Horan and an invaluable contemporary record of a vanished way of life. This early impression of Chon-Ca-Pe, published by E. C. Biddle, is a classic Native American portrait capturing, as many do not, the majestic calm of the sitter. He was known as Big Kansas and called

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