Péhriska-Rúhpa. Moennitarri Warrior in the Costume of the Dog Danse. [Tab. 23].
Leipzig: Schmidt and Guenther, 1922]. Hand-colored aquatint engraving by René Rollet after Bodmer. Sheet size: 25 12/ x 19 1/2 in. Perhaps the greatest image to emerge from the picturing of the American West, and certainly Bodmer's most famous . Péhriska-Rúhpa dances in his regalia as a principal leader of the Dog Society of his village. The Dog Society was one of seven such societies among the men of the Mandan and Hidatsa Tribes. They were one of the main tenets by which Hidatsa society lived. As an individual progressed through life, it was necessary for him to purchase his entry into successive societies, starting with "the foolish dogs" at about ten to fifteen years of age and graduating to the society of the black-tailed deer for men over fifty. All this information was carefully recorded by Prince Maximilian during the travellers' winter stop-over at Fort Clark in 1833-1834. This portrait, Bodmer's masterpiece, was painted in March 1834 towards the end of this stay. David C. Hunt, "Karl Bodmer and the American Frontier," Imprint/Spring 1985, p.18. Cf.Graff 4648; cf. Howes M443a; cf. Pilling 2521; cf. Sabin 47014; cf. Wagner-Camp 76:1.
Péhriska-Rúhpa. Moennitarri Warrior in the Costume of the Dog Danse. [Tab. 23].
Leipzig: Schmidt and Guenther, 1922]. Hand-colored aquatint engraving by René Rollet after Bodmer. Sheet size: 25 12/ x 19 1/2 in. Perhaps the greatest image to emerge from the picturing of the American West, and certainly Bodmer's most famous . Péhriska-Rúhpa dances in his regalia as a principal leader of the Dog Society of his village. The Dog Society was one of seven such societies among the men of the Mandan and Hidatsa Tribes. They were one of the main tenets by which Hidatsa society lived. As an individual progressed through life, it was necessary for him to purchase his entry into successive societies, starting with "the foolish dogs" at about ten to fifteen years of age and graduating to the society of the black-tailed deer for men over fifty. All this information was carefully recorded by Prince Maximilian during the travellers' winter stop-over at Fort Clark in 1833-1834. This portrait, Bodmer's masterpiece, was painted in March 1834 towards the end of this stay. David C. Hunt, "Karl Bodmer and the American Frontier," Imprint/Spring 1985, p.18. Cf.Graff 4648; cf. Howes M443a; cf. Pilling 2521; cf. Sabin 47014; cf. Wagner-Camp 76:1.
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