CATLIN, George (1796-1872). O-Kee-Pa: A Religious Ceremony; and Other Customs of the Mandans . London: Trübner and Co., 1867.
CATLIN, George (1796-1872). O-Kee-Pa: A Religious Ceremony; and Other Customs of the Mandans . London: Trübner and Co., 1867. 4° (255 x 165 mm). Half-title. 13 chromolithographic plates after Catlin by Simonau & Toovey. (Light scattered spotting throughout.) Publisher's purple cloth, front cover gilt-panelled and -lettered, edges gilt (spine darkened, extremities lightly rubbed, headcap starting to fray). Provenance: A.H. Bright (bookplate). FIRST EDITION . The Mandans, a native American people originally from the Heart and Knife tributaries of the Missouri River, North Dakota, were first visited by the artist George Catlin in 1833. He was the first white man to witness the famous O-Kee-Pa ( Okipa ) ceremony, which is illustrated for the first time in the present work. Only a few years later, the Mandans were almost wiped out by smallpox in 1837, so the present work preserves an important historical record of the Mandan buffalo dance ceremony. Without the very rare 3-page ‘folium reservatum’ found only in a few copies (see Christie's New York 18 May 2012 lot 14). Bennett, p. 22; Field 262; Howes C-244; Sabin 11543; Wagner-Camp-Becker 84.
CATLIN, George (1796-1872). O-Kee-Pa: A Religious Ceremony; and Other Customs of the Mandans . London: Trübner and Co., 1867.
CATLIN, George (1796-1872). O-Kee-Pa: A Religious Ceremony; and Other Customs of the Mandans . London: Trübner and Co., 1867. 4° (255 x 165 mm). Half-title. 13 chromolithographic plates after Catlin by Simonau & Toovey. (Light scattered spotting throughout.) Publisher's purple cloth, front cover gilt-panelled and -lettered, edges gilt (spine darkened, extremities lightly rubbed, headcap starting to fray). Provenance: A.H. Bright (bookplate). FIRST EDITION . The Mandans, a native American people originally from the Heart and Knife tributaries of the Missouri River, North Dakota, were first visited by the artist George Catlin in 1833. He was the first white man to witness the famous O-Kee-Pa ( Okipa ) ceremony, which is illustrated for the first time in the present work. Only a few years later, the Mandans were almost wiped out by smallpox in 1837, so the present work preserves an important historical record of the Mandan buffalo dance ceremony. Without the very rare 3-page ‘folium reservatum’ found only in a few copies (see Christie's New York 18 May 2012 lot 14). Bennett, p. 22; Field 262; Howes C-244; Sabin 11543; Wagner-Camp-Becker 84.
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