Wi-Jun-Jon, an Assinneboin Chief, from Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio

John McGahey, English, 1817 - unknown, after George Catlin, American, 1796 - 1872

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1844

Hand-colored lithograph

unknown

Sheet: 17 5/8 × 12 3/16 in. (44.7 × 31 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Purchased through the Stephen and Constance Spahn '63 Acquisition Fund

2014.91

Publisher

Day & Haghe, London

Geography/Culture

North America, United States

Period

19th century

Object Name

Print

Classification

Print

Not on view

Inscription

Printed, lower left margin: Catlin del. on Stone by Mc. Gahey [the period is directly under the superscripted c]; printed, lower right margin: Day & Haghe Lithrs. to the Queen [the period is directly beneath the superscripted rs];printed, lower center margin: No. 25. / WI-JUN-JON. / AN ASSINEBOIN CHIEF. / (From Catlin's N. A. Indian Collection.) [the period is directly beneath the superscripted o in No.]; printed, lower left margin: Going to Washington.; printed, lower right margin: Returning to his home.

Published References

le Beau, Bryan F. Currier and Ives: America Imagined, Washington, D. C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 2001. Currier and Ives. "Wi-Jun-Jon." Library of Congress. "The European Tour," George Catlin and His Indian Gallery, The Autry Museum, 2004 Gaskin, L. J. P. "Catlin's 'North American Indian Portfolio,'" Man 36 (Mar. 1936) Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, JSTOR, Goode, Stephen. "Catlin and the Indians," The World & I. 17.2 (2002): 80-87. Kirwan, Padraig."Images That Stole Their Subjects," The Times Higher Education Supplement. 2092 (2013), 48. Mielke, Laura L. Moving Encounters: Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. Miller, David R. and John Beierle, "Assiniboine," eHRAF World Cultures. Yale University. Rodnick, David. "Political Structure and Status among the Assiniboine Indians," American Anthropologist. 39 (1937) 408-416. "Who was Louis Haghe?"

Provenance

Possibly from a large, New Jersey private collection of Western American art; sold to the Old Print Shop, New York, New York, about 2013; sold to present collection, 2014.

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