Karl Bodmer. Reise in das inner Nord-America in den Jaharen. Published by Prince Maximilian zu Wied, Paris, Coblenz and London: c. 1839-42. Aquatint engraving.

Original color, wove
Paper. Early state with no figures in the background.
Sheet size: 24 3/4 by 18 1/8 inches.

Painted by Bodmer while at Fort Clark in between 1833 and 34, this is one of two portraits Bodmer made of Pehriska-Ruhpa. His shirt is decorated with broad bands of quillwork and fringed with ermine fur, locks of human hair, and dyed horsehair. His quilled leggings feature long flaps at the bottom. He also wears a distinctive necklace of grizzly bear claws attached to a roll of otter tail skin decorated with small trade beads. This powerful portrait of Péhriska-Rúhpa presents a figure of great dignity.. A decorated buffalo robe over one shoulder and arm, Péhriska-Rúhpa holds his decorated pipe in the crook of his other arm.

$12,500.

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