Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Currier, Nathaniel (1813-1888), American, lithographer
Creator Name:
Maurer, Louis (active ca. 1890), undetermined
Creator Name:
Tait, A. F. (active ca. 1862), artist
Group Creator Name:
- Currier & Ives (active 1857-1907), American, publisher
Creator Role:
artist
Creator Role:
lithographer
Creator Role:
undetermined
Title:
The last war-whoop
Date:
c1856
Materials:
print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
Dimensions:
52 x 67.7 cm., visible image
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1450--FR
Subject:
- Animals
- Clothing & dress
- Fur trade
- Horses
- Indians of North America
- Lithographs, color
Heading:
Content/Description:
Notes:
Scene on prairie following battle with white trapper on horseback looking at fallen Indian warrior who has been shot in chest and gives his last war cry. Other trappers gather horses in distance.
Heading:
Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Painted by A.F. Tait; (LR, within image): L. Maurer; (LR): Lith. N. Currier, N[ew] Y[ork]; (LC): Entered... 1856 by N. Currier... N[ew] Y[ork]; (below title): New York, published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau Street.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf596nb6x 5

The last war-whoop