Indigenous American Figures

Artworks showcasing Indigenous figures in traditional dress, highlighting cultural attire, symbolism, and historical context with a mix of vibrant colors and natural backgrounds.

History of Africa. 19th century. The Congo. Portrait of Ibaka, King of Bolobo. Illustration by Paul Heydel. Engraving by Brendamour. El Congo y la Creacion del Estado Independiente de este nombre. Historia de los Trabajos y Exploraciones Verificados (The Congo and the Founding of its Free State. A Story of Work and Exploration), by Henry M. Stanley. Edited in Barcelona, ca.1890. Spain.

Ah-nó-je-nahge, He Who Stands on Both Sides, a Distinguished Ball Player. oil on canvas. Date: 1835. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Eugene Croe, Cigar Store Figure, c 1937 Cigar Store Figure

Nóm-ba-mon-nee, Double Walker, a Brave. oil on canvas. Date: 1832. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Tchong-tas-sáb-bee, Black Dog, Second Chief. oil on canvas. Date: 1834. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Cigar Store Indian. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 50.9 x 38 cm (20 1/16 x 14 15/16 in.). Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Chris Makrenos.

History of Africa. 19th century. The Congo. Portrait of Ibaka, King of Bolobo. Illustration by Paul Heydel. Engraving by Brendamour. El Congo y la Creacion del Estado Independiente de este nombre. Historia de los Trabajos y Exploraciones Verificados (The Congo and the Founding of its Free State. A Story of Work and Exploration), by Henry M. Stanley. Edited in Barcelona, ca.1890. Spain.

Shon-ta-yi-ga, Little Wolf, a Famous Warrior. oil on canvas. Date: 1844-1845. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Cigar Store Indian. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 68.9 x 50.9 cm (27 1/8 x 20 1/16 in.). Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, and heightening on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Richard F. Smith.

Boy Chief - Ojibbeway. Dated: 1843. Dimensions: overall: 71 x 58.3 cm (27 15/16 x 22 15/16 in.) framed: 80 x 67.6 cm (31 1/2 x 26 5/8 in.). Medium: oil on canvas. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: George Catlin.

Aúh-ka-nah-paw-wáh, Earth Standing, an Old and Valiant Warrior. oil on canvas. Date: 1831. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Chetan-woa-kutoa-mang (The Hawk Who Hunts Walking). Date: ca. 1887. Oil on paperboard. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

TRAJES CIVILES, MILITARES Y RELIGIOSOS DE MEXICO - 1828 - MUJER JOVEN DE PALENQUE (MEXICO) - LITOGRAFIA SIGLO XIX. Author: LINATI CLAUDIO. Location: MUSEO DE AMERICA-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Shón-ka, The Dog, Chief of the Bad Arrow Points Band. oil on canvas. Date: 1832. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Tradesman's Sign (Indian). Dated: 1935/1942. Dimensions: overall: 54.4 x 38 cm (21 7/16 x 14 15/16 in.). Medium: watercolor and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Helen E. Gilman.

DEBRET, JEAN-BAPTISTE PINTOR FRANCES. 1768-1848 (TRABAJO EN BRASIL DURANTE 15 AÑOS) JEFE DE LOS BORORENAS EN UN ATAQUE",ACUARELA MINISTERIO DE CULTURA. RIO DE JANEIRO.

Mah-tó-he-ha, Old Bear, a Medicine Man. oil on canvas. Date: 1832. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Woman and Child, Showing How the Heads of Children are Flattened. oil on canvas. Date: 1837-1839. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Camanchee Chief, His Wife, and a Warrior, 1861, oil on card mounted on paperboard, overall: 45.7 x 60.9 cm (18 x 24 in.), George Catlin (artist) American, 1796 - 1872

Náh-pope, Soup, adviser to Black Hawk. oil on canvas. Date: 1832. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Tamboer and Pijper / der Utrechtsche / Schutterij.

Seminole brave Os-ce-o-la, Powell, son of a white man and Creek woman. In turban and calico robes, holding a rifle, Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, London, 1841.

Petelesharro (Generous Chief). oil on wood. Date: ca. 1822. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Fruit seller, Nicolaas van der Waay, 1865 - 1936 print paper. etching fruits. merchant, salesman Napoli

Running man holding an assegai in his right hand and four assegais in his left, 1776 - 1795 drawing XHOSA Warrier with a Assegaai in his lifted right hand and four in his left hand, to the left. Cape of Good Hope paper. deck paint. ink. watercolor (paint) pen / brush Cape of Good Hope

North American artefacts and places. Album of drawings and watercolours attributed to Thomas Bateman

Cigar Store Indian. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 51 x 38.2 cm (20 1/16 x 15 1/16 in.). Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, graphite, and heightening on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Chris Makrenos.

Indian Courting, 1849-1855, Seth Eastman, American, 1808-1875, 6 1/4 × 5 1/8 in. (15.88 × 13.02 cm) (image)12 15/16 × 9 3/4 in. (32.86 × 24.77 cm) (sheet), Watercolor, United States, 19th century, U.S. Army Captain Seth Eastman was a trained artist who served twice on the frontier at Minnesotas Fort Snelling, from 1830 to 1832 and again from 1841 to 1848. His extensive firsthand, peaceful encounters with Native Americans gave him extraordinary opportunities to observe their customs and practices, which he documented in his art.

Chagga warriors of Tanzania with bow and arrow, spear and curved swords, wearing feather cap, skirt and animal skin loincloths. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Many of the illustrations were adapted from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" and others.

Indio salvaje de la tribu Akanza, de Luisiana. Grabado en color de 1805.

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In: 'Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Oceanie .....' by the French ships ASTROLABE and ZELEE under the command of Dumont D'Urville. Plate 86. Naturels de Pao et de Lebouka.

Four Dancers. oil on canvas. Date: 1843-1844. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Three Yumaya Indians. Dated: 1855/1869. Dimensions: overall: 45.7 x 61.8 cm (18 x 24 5/16 in.). Medium: oil on card mounted on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: George Catlin.

Karmoeb, Captain of the Namaqua Khoisan, draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon, (attributed to), Oct-1777 - Mar-1786, paper, brush, pen, h 660 mm × w 480 mm, h 317 mm × w 202 mm, h 306 mm × w 187 mm

Lluís Masriera / Figurín para teatro, siglo XIX. Colección privada. Author: LLUÍS MASRIERA I ROSÉS.

Scalp Dance, Mouth of the Teton River. oil on canvas. Date: 1835-1837. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Close-up of a tapestry, Chateau de Rambouillet, France

Hoowanneka, Winnebago Chief, illustration

Piro Indian Chief. oil on canvas. Date: ca. 1890-1892. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

The beach runners and their shelters on the beach, a flight of flamingos in the background, whale bones and shells in the foreground. The Beachwalkers is the name Gordon gave to this San people, Homestead of the so-called Beachwalkers (San or Khoikhoi) just north of the Orange River's mouth., draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon, (attributed to), Kaapprovincie, Aug-1779, paper, brush, pen, h 660 mm × w 480 mm, h 324 mm × w 457 mm, h 252 mm × w 438 mm

Ashanti warrior from the Jardin d'Acclimatation with his weapons, Paris. France. Old 19th century engraving from La Nature 1887

Mad, Jäger as Adina and Dlle planner as a Zulima in the bad women in the sera costume picture No, for the theater newspaper, Andreas Geiger -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

Artist: Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian, 1607-1677, Native American Indian, or A Twenty-Three-Year-Old VirginianAlgonquian, Etching, 10.2 × 7.7 cm (4 × 3 1/16in.), Made in Bohemia, Czech Republic, Bohemian, 17thcentury, Works on Paper -Prints

Fulup man in loin cloth and gold leg and arm bands with quivers, spears, bow and arrow, and a bearded Mandingo man in robe and turban. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Many of the illustrations were adapted from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" and others.

George Catlin, Shawano Indians, 1861 1869 Shawano Indians

Native man of Hawaii (Sandwich Islander). Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature: The South Sea Islands, Ackermann, London, 1824. Copied from an illustration by Louis Choris in Otto von Kotzebue's Picturesque voyage around the world, 1822.

Co-ee-há-jo, a Chief. oil on canvas. Date: 1838. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Hee-doh-gee-ats: a Chin-ook boy From: The natural history of Man by James Cowles Prichard, 1842, by John Harris, George Catlin, Hippolyte Baillière. Gift of Miss E March, 1951.

George Catlin, Cochimtee Chief, His Wife, and a Warrior, 1855 1869 George Catlin (American, 1796 - 1872), Cochimtee Chief, His Wife, and a Warrior, 1855/1869, oil on card mounted on paperboard, Paul Mellon Collection 1965.16.170

George Catlin, Three Yumaya Indians, 1855 1869 Three Yumaya Indians

DiggerIndians. Artist: Unknown

Crow Chief, His Wife, and a Warrior, 1861/1869, oil on card mounted on paperboard, overall: 46.3 x 62.1 cm (18 1/4 x 24 7/16 in.), George Catlin (artist) American, 1796 - 1872

Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695-1756, Netherlandish, active in Britain, Tomo Chachi Mico, or King of Yamacraw, and Tooanahowi sic, His Nephew, ca. 1734. Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper.

THE LAST OF HIS RACE, (The Vanishing American), 1908, by Frederic Remington, Oil painting on composition board. A western Plains Indian stands on a canyon edge in an arid environment (BSLOC_2019_9_151)

John Gabriel Stedman (1744 - 7 March 1797) was a distinguished British-Dutch soldier and noted author. He was born in 1744 in Dendermonde, which then was in the Austrian Netherlands, to Robert Stedman, a Scot and an officer in the Dutch Republic's Scots Brigade, and his wife of presumed Dutch noble lineage, Antoinetta Christina van Ceulen. He lived most of his childhood in 'the Dutch Republic with his parents but spent time with his uncle in Scotland. His years in Surinam, on the northern coast of South America, were characterized by encounters with African slaves and colonial planters, as well as the exotic local flora and fauna. He recorded his experiences in The Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796) which, with its firsthand depictions of slavery and other aspects of colonization, became an important tool in the early abolitionist cause.

'Hawaiian', 18th century. Artist: John Webber

Australian aboriginal with a shield used as percussion instrument during a corroboree dance. Musician of New Holland. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature: The Asiatic Islands and New Holland, R. Ackermann, London, 1824.

Braves' Dance, Ojibwa. oil on canvas. Date: 1835-1837. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Drawing - Curly Bear Acawyutsishe W. Langdon Kihn (1898-1957)

Chee-me-náh-na-quet, Great Cloud, son of Grizzly Bear. oil on canvas. Date: 1831. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Engraving depicting a man from Solor. Solor is a volcanic island located off the eastern tip of Flores island in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia. Dated 19th Century

Costumes of Australia, Oceania, 1858. Aborigine men examining flotsam from a European shipwreck on a beach. In loincloths and capes, armed with spear and shield, they hold a top hat and hand mirror. Naturels de l'Australie pillant des debris de naufrage. Handcoloured and sepia-tinted lithograph by Jean-Adolphe Bocquin after an illustration by Auguste Leloir from Elisabeth Muller (pseudonym of Leonie Bedelet)s Le Monde en Estampes, The World in Prints, Amadee Bedelet, Paris, 1858.

CODICE TRUJILLO DEL PERU - TOMO II E 40 - QUARTERON MESTIZA - ACUARELA - SIGLO XVIII. Author: MARTINEZ COMPAÑON BALTASAR. Location: PALACIO REAL-BIBLIOTECA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Costumes de Différents Pays, 'Blanchisseuses de St. Domingue'. L. F. Labrousse (France, Bordeaux, active late 18th century)Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810). France, circa 1797. Prints; engravings. Hand-tinted engraving on paper

Woman in Koto Misi, Jacob Marius Adriaan Martini van Geffen, in or after c. 1850 - in or before c. 1860 drawing Suriname paper. ink. pencil. watercolor (paint) brush Suriname

Bolivian Indian Playing the Quena. oil on canvas. Date: ca. 1890-1892. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Mary Darly, active 1762 -1772, British, The Iris. Etching.

Watercolour - Two Montagnais Henry Richard S. Bunnett (1845-1910)

Archery of the Mandans, 1844, George Catlin, American, 1796 - 1872, 12 x 17 3/8 in. (30.48 x 44.13 cm) (image, sheet), Hand-colored lithograph, United States, 19th century

Cigar Store Indian. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 70.1 x 51 cm (27 5/8 x 20 1/16 in.). Medium: watercolor and gouache on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Richard F. Smith.

The Piper, 1841, painting by John Frederick Lewis, historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th-century original .

Melanesian chief and man of Vanou, Vanikoro, Solomon Islands, Pacific Ocean. The chief wears a bandana, earrings and necklace, the man below with a wooden nose piercing. Naturel et chef de Vanou (Vanikoro). Adapted from an illustration by Louis Auguste de Sainson in Dumont dUrvilles Voyage de la corvette lAstrolabe. Handcoloured woodcut by AC after Louis Auguste de Sainson from Auguste Wahlen's Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde, (Manners, Customs and Costumes of all the People of the World) Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1845.

Ngalyema, jefe de Kintamo. Retrato. Grabado por Pedro Mullor. El Congo y la Creación del Estado Independiente de este nombre. Historia de los Trabajos y Exploraciones Verificados, por Enrique M. Stanley. Editada en Barcelona, hacia 1890. España.

Native man of Easter Island or Rapa Nui. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature, The South Sea Islands, Ackermann, 1824. From an illustration by Louis Choris in Otto von Kotzebue's Picturesque voyage around the world, 1822.

George Catlin, Three Blackfoot Men, 1855 1869 Three Blackfoot Men

Writing clerk and his wife standing in a landscape, draughtsman: anonymous, Tanjur, 1790 - 1810, paper, brush, h 227 mm × w 338 mm

Peechekir or Peechekor, Chippewa Chief, Copy by Charles Bird King of a Painting by James Otto Lewis, circa 1826

Portrait of a mestizo, by Jean-Louis Theodore Gericault (1791-1824).

Lorenzo Girl. oil on canvas. Date: ca. 1890-1892. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Native American Warrior, by William L. Wells for 1893 Columbian Exposition Pageant, Chicago, Illinois, USA, Watercolor, 1892

Costumes of negro men and women of the Gold Coast (Ghana), Senegal and Gambia. Warrior in bodypainting and topknot, woman in feather skirt and hat, warrior with stick and scimitar. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Many of the illustrations were adapted from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" and others.

Turnhout, Brepols, Philippus Jacobus, Grenadiers van de garde, Grenadiers de la garde, Voltigeurs, verso - stamped, Sheet with 2 horizontal rows with representations of soldiers. In the bottom margin a five-line caption in Dutch and in French in two columns. Numbered center top: N. 30., print, prent, volksprent, prints, prenten, volksprenten, height 419 mm, width 336 mm, Publication (Event), Publicatie, Belgisch, 1778 - 1845, publisher, uitgever, 1800 - 1833, paper, papier, houtsnede, letterpress printing, boekdruk, print maker, prentmaker

Monchousia.

Study of three heads (Arabs). Lulves, Jean (1833-1889), painter

North America, Mexico, Oaxaca. Arturo Garcia Bustos's murals adorn the walls of the Presidential Palace.

Costumes de Différents Pays, 'Indien du Coromandel de la Caste des Parias'. L. F. Labrousse (France, Bordeaux, active late 18th century)Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810). France, circa 1797. Prints; engravings. Hand-tinted engraving on paper

Brazier's wife filing imperfections from a small brass artefact: India. Hand-coloured engraving published Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1822.

Khoi or San woman with her little boy. Draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon. Dating: Oct-1777 - Mar-1786. Measurements: h 660 mm × w 480 mm; h 339 mm × w 208 mm; h 322 mm × w 204 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Wi-Jun-Jon, Pigeon's Egg Head (The Light) Going to and returning from Washington 1837-1839 George Catlin

Kahlo, Frida (1907-1954) Museo Dolores Olmedo Patino, Mexiko City 1944 39,8x30,5 Oil on hardboard Surrealism Mexico

Spanish Guinea. Territory controlled by Spain since 1778 in the Gulf of Guinea. It gained independence in 1968. The new country was named Equatorial Guinea. Fernando Poo Island (today Bioko Island). Spanish province of the Gulf of Guinea. Siova-Biahome, chieftain of Musola (Boloko, South Bioko, Bioko Island). Drawing by E. Alvarez Dumont. Engraving by Capuz. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana (The Spanish and American Illustration), 1883.

Wah-pe-séh-see, Mother of the Chief. oil on canvas. Date: 1830. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

A mat-making couple. Gouache drawing.

Indian Chief, from "Governors, Arms, Etc." series (N133-1), issued by Duke Sons & Co. ca. 1888 Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. Trade cards from the "State Governors, Arms, Etc." sseries (N133-1), issued in an unnumbered set of 48 cards ca. 1888 by W. Duke, Sons & Co. There are two types of cards from the series. The first type, pictured here, is made of thick stock and does not fold. This variation promotes Honest Long Cut tobacco. The second type is printed on thinner stock and is meant to be folded in three parts. This variation promotes Duke's Cigarettes, Cameo, and Turkish Cross-Cut brands.. Indian Chief, from "Governors, Arms, Etc." series (N133-1), issued by Duke Sons & Co.. ca. 1888. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. (New York and Durham, N.C.)

Two Negroes, Rembrandt, Harmensz van Rijn, 1661.

ADAM SMITH-DAVID RICARDO-ROBERT THOMAS MALTHUS-ECONOMISTAS.

Waa-Kaun-See-Kaa or the Rattle-Snake, a Winnebago Chief James Otto Lewis (American, 1799 - 1858). , issued November 1835. Lithograph with watercolor on paper, Sheet: 13 1/8 x 9 11/16 in. (33.3 x 24.6 cm). American Art issued November 1835

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