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Bodmer, Karl, 1809-1893

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  • Human and animal skulls placed on the ground as offerings by the Mandan Indians of North America. Coloured aquatint by S. Himely after Ch. Bodmer, ca. 1843.
  • Human and animal skulls placed on the ground as offerings by the Mandan Indians. Coloured aquatint by S. Himely after Ch. Bodmer, 1839.
  • A man from the Mandan tribe is looking up at two idols placed on wooden sticks; a village in the background. Aquatint by S. Himely after Ch. Bodmer, ca. 1843.
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    Human and animal skulls placed on the ground as offerings by the Mandan Indians of North America. Coloured aquatint by S. Himely after Ch. Bodmer, ca. 1843.

    Bodmer, Karl, 1809-1893. | Date: [1843?] | Reference: 579265i
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    A man from the Mandan tribe is looking up at two idols placed on wooden sticks; a village in the background. Aquatint by S. Himely after Ch. Bodmer, ca. 1843.

    Bodmer, Karl, 1809-1893. | Date: [1843?] | Reference: 579266i
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    Human and animal skulls placed on the ground as offerings by the Mandan Indians. Coloured aquatint by S. Himely after Ch. Bodmer, 1839.

    Bodmer, Karl, 1809-1893. | Date: Jany. 1st 1839 | Reference: 579263i
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    People of the first man : life among the Plains Indians in their final days of glory : the firsthand account of Prince Maximilian's expedition up the Missouri River, 1833-34 / edited and designed by Davis Thomas and Karin Ronnefeldt ; watercolors by Karl Bodmer.

    Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von, 1782-1867. | Date: 1976
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