Karl Bodmer was a little-known Swiss painter when he was chosen by Prince Maximilian of Prussia to accompany his voyage to America, in order to document in pictorial terms the expedition. With the rest of Maximilian’s company, the two traveled among the Plains Indians from 1832 to 1834, a time when the Plains and the Rockies were still virtually unknown. They arrived in the West before acculturation had begun to change the lives of the Indians, and Bodmer, who was a protegé of the great naturalist von Humbolt, brought a trained ethnologist’s eye to the task. The Bodmer/Maximilian collaboration produced a record of their expedition that is incontestably the finest early graphic study of the Plains tribes. (more...)
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 Mouth of the Fox River (Indiana) Tab 5 |
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 Fort Clark on the Missouri Tab 15 |
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 Sih-Chida & Mahchsi-Karehde, Mandan Indians Tab 20 |
 Fac Simile of an Indian Painting Tab 22 |
 Idols of the Mandan Indians Tab 25 |
 Winter Village of the Minatarres Tab 26 |
 Junction of the Yellow Stone River with the Missouri Tab 29 |
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 Indians Hunting The Bison Tab 31 |
 Assiniboin Indians Tab 32 |
 Remarkable Hills on the upper Missouri Tab 35 |
 The White Castels on the upper Missouri Tab 37 |
 Camp of the Gros Ventres of the Prairies on the upper Missouri Tab 38 |
 Herd of Bisons on the upper Missouri Tab 40 |
 View of the Stone Walls on the upper Missouri Tab 41 |
 View of the Rocky Mountains Tab 44 |
 Punka Indians Encamped on the Banks of the Missouri Vig XI |
 Washinga Sahba's Grave on Blackbird's Hill Vig XII |
 Crow Indians Vig XIII |
 Offering of the Mandan Indians Vig XIV |
 Beaver Hut on the Missouri Vig XVII |
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 The Elkhorn Pyramid on the upper Missouri Vig XXI |
 Mahsette-Kuiuab, Chief of the Cree-Indians Vig XXII |
