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 hand color on vellum paper.
Sheet size: 17 x 23 1/8 inches.

Wonderful detail shown in the colorful face paint and beaded jewellery. Massika wears a horse hair roach ornament in his hair with a single eagle feather ornamented with a rattlesnake rattler. Wakusasse also has a complex design in red blue and yellow on his faces, silver beads in his ears and also a roach hair ornament.

$5500.

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