NOT-CHI-MI-NE.
AN IOWAY CHIEF
No. 91   RICE, RUTTER & CO, Publishers

This is a vibrant example of the portrait of Chief NOTCHIMINE in his traditional costume and headdress.  He has a red cape over one shoulder, and is holding a peace pipe with his official medal displayed.  Their is some age related toning but the image remains beautiful.  The biography of Chief NOTCHIMINE will be included in this transaction. 

Page measures:  7" wide x 10-1/2" tall

Hand colored lithograph color plates were by Henry Inman based on paintings by Charles Bird King, James Otto Lewis, and Peter Rindisbacher.  Most of the original paintings were destroyed in a fire and the Henry Inman lithographs preserve the images.

This image is from the 1872 octavo edition of:
HISTORY OF THE INDIAN TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA
WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND ANECDOTES
OF THE
PRINCIPAL CHIEFS
EMBELLISHED WITH
One Hundred Portraits from the Indian Gallery
IN THE
WAR DEPARTMENT AT WASHINGTON
BY THOMAS L. McKENNEY,
Late of the Indian Department, Washington,
In Two Volumes
VOL. II

PHILADELPHIA:
PUBLISHED BY D. RICE & CO.
508 MINOR STREET.
1872

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
RICE, RUTTER & CO.,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District
of Pennsylvania.

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SHERMAN & CO., PHILADELPHIA.