Historical and statistical information respecting the history, condition, and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States : collected and prepared under the direction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs per act of Congress of March 3rd, 1847

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864, Jones, Alfred, 1819-1900, ill, Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875, ill, Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864, ill, Gibbs, George, 1815-1873, ill, Wagstaff, Charles Edward, 1808-1850, engraver, Smillie, James, 1807-1885, engraver, Brantz, Lewis, engraver, McRae, John C., engraver, Williams, W. (Wellington), engraver, Allen, Charles, former owner. DSI, Houston, George S., former owner. DSI, Edie, J. R. (John Rufus), b. 1870, former owner. DSI, Doerner, Julius, former owner. DSI, Illman & Sons, engraver, P.S. Duval & Son, engraver, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Library, former owner. DSI, Worcester Society of Antiquity (Worcester, Mass.), former owner. DSI, Army Medical Library (U.S.), former owner. DSI, United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs · 1851 · Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company (successors to Grigg, Eliot & Co.) · 4 pictures

Schoolcraft's government-commissioned survey of the Indian tribes of the United States, published in Philadelphia by Lippincott, Grambo & Company in 1851 and illustrated by Alfred Jones, Seth Eastman and Albert Newsam. Its plates are steel engravings of tribal life and material culture, with several pages of archery bows and arrows set out as measured diagrams. A designer might take from them the crisp hatched shading and the formal, documentary way the engravings frame figures, tents and weapons against open landscape.

Indians of North America

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