Indigenous Portraits

Illustrations and paintings representing indigenous figures, emphasizing traditional attire, cultural identity, and practices from diverse regions, particularly the Americas.

Native indian of Rio Verde, Colombia. Old 19th century engraved illustration. Travel to New Granada by Charles Saffray from El Mundo en La Mano 1879

Native indian of Rio Verde, Colombia. Old 19th century engraved illustration. Travel to New Granada by Charles Saffray from El Mundo en La Mano 1879

Klatsop Indians. Dated: 1855/1869. Dimensions: overall: 46.3 x 61.5 cm (18 1/4 x 24 3/16 in.). Medium: oil on card mounted on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: George Catlin.

Wooden Indian Bust. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 48.3 x 38.3 cm (19 x 15 1/16 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, colored pencil, and heightening on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: David Ramage.

Costumes de Différents Pays, 'Amazone d'Afrique'. 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

Ta-wáh-que-nah, Mountain of Rocks, Second Chief of the Tribe. oil on canvas. Date: 1834. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

"A Female Savage of Terra del Fuego." A woman of Terra del Fuego, South America, carrying a baby on her back.. Hand-colored copperplate engraving from a drawing by Johann Ihle from Ebenezer Sibly's "Universal System of Natural History" 1794. The prolific Sibly published his Universal System of Natural History in 1794~1796 in five volumes covering the three natural worlds of fauna, flora and geology. The series included illustrations of mythical beasts such as the sukotyro and the mermaid, and depicted sloths sitting on the ground (instead of hanging from trees) and a domesticated female orang utan wearing a bandana. The engravings were by J. Pass, J. Chapman and Barlow copied from original drawings by famous natural history artists George Edwards, Albertus Seba, Maria Sybilla Merian, and Johann Ihle.

George Catlin, Four Mura Indians, 1854 1869 Four Mura Indians

George Catlin, Three Minatarree Indians, 1861 Three Minatarree Indians

Nubian 1888 Elimar Ulrich Bruno Piglhein (1848-1894 German) Lithograph

Kee-o-kúk, The Watchful Fox, Chief of the Tribe. oil on canvas. Date: 1835. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Jee-hé-o-hó-shah, Cannot Be Thrown Down, a Warrior. oil on canvas. Date: 1832. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Warrior of Ombai with breastplate, bow, arrows and quiver. He wears his hair tied up in a plume. Man of Ombai Island (Ombay), Indonesia. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Jacques Arago from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature: The Asiatic Islands and New Holland, R. Ackermann, London, 1824.

George Catlin, Three Chaymas Men, 1854 1869 Three Chaymas Men

Cigar Store Indian. Dated: c. 1938. Dimensions: overall: 50.9 x 35.9 cm (20 1/16 x 14 1/8 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and colored pencil on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Beverly Chichester.

Costume of a king of Congo, In turban, robe with long train, sash belt, scimitar and stick. Perhaps a portrait of King Alfonso I (c. 14561543). The realm included Congo, Loango, Benguela, and Angola. Roi de Congo. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Laroque after a design by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur from his Encyclopedie des voyages, Encyclopedia of Voyages, Bordeaux, France, 1792.

Chieftain Coba (Kobe) with the grenadier hat given to him by Gordon on 5 December 1777, his shield and assailants, 'Captain' Coba (or Kobé), a chief of the Gqunukhwebe tribe, wearing the grenadier helmet given to him by Robert Jacob Gordon., draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon, Great Fish River (South Africa), 11-Dec-1777, paper, brush, pen, h 660 mm × w 480 mm, h 376 mm × w 241 mm, h 350 mm × w 227 mm

No-Way-Ke-Sug-Ga, Otoe, illustration

'The head of a chief of New Zealand, the face curiously tataowd, or mark'd, according to their manner' . Engraving From A journal of a voyage to the South Seas : in His Majesty's ship, the Endeavour from the papers of Sydney Parkinson, embellished with views and designs, delineated by the Author, and engraved by capital artists. 1773

George Catlin, Five Caribbe Indians, 1854 1869 Five Caribbe Indians

O-Wan-Ich-Koh or the Little Elk, a Winnebago Chief James Otto Lewis (American, 1799 - 1858). , issued January 1836. Lithograph with watercolor on paper, Sheet: 13 3/4 x 10 in. (34.9 x 25.4 cm). American Art issued January 1836

Rarick, chief of the Island of Otdia (Wotje Atoll, Radack Chain, Marshall Islands). With headdress of shells and flowers, rolled green-leaf earrings, necklace and tattoos. Chief of the Romanzoff Islands. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature, The South Sea Islands, Ackermann, 1824. After from an illustration by Louis Choris in Otto von Kotzebue's Picturesque voyage around the world, 1822.

History of Africa. 19th century. Indigenous armed for warfare. Engraving. 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.

Ottowa Chief, His Wife, and a Warrior. Dated: 1861/1869. Dimensions: overall: 46.9 x 62.5 cm (18 7/16 x 24 5/8 in.). Medium: oil on card mounted on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: George Catlin.

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

Pam-a-hó, The Swimmer, One of Black Hawk's Warriors. oil on canvas. Date: 1832. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Tál-lee, a Warrior of Distinction. oil on canvas. Date: 1834. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Sha-wá-no, The South, a Noted Warrior. oil on canvas. Date: 1831. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Ee-mat-lá-, King Phillip, Second Chief. oil on canvas. Date: 1838. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Kamchatkan native, in fur skin coat. Copied from Louis Choris's "Voyage Pittoresque." Handcoloured lithograph from James Cowles Prichard's Natural History of Man, Balliere, London, 1855.

Mignon. Character of the work Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticership by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). Engraving by R. BrendAmour. The Illustration, 1882.

Sioux chief and medicine man: Wa-nah-de-tunck-a, Big Eagle, chief of the Long Avenue band 234 and Toh-to-wah-kon-da-pee, Blue Medicine with his medicine drum and mystery rattle 233. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, London, 1841.

Allegory of Africa, from the Four Continents mid to late 17th century Abraham Bosse French. Allegory of Africa, from the Four Continents 386298

William Blake after John Gabriel Stedman, A Coromantyn Free Negro, or Ranger, armed, 1793 A Coromantyn Free Negro, or Ranger, armed

Sioux (Dakota) ball-game players Ah-no-je-nahge, He Who Stands on Both Sides 235 and We-chush-ta-doo-ta, Red Man 236, in bodypaint, loincloth, feather tail and carrying sticks or raquets. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, London, 1841.

Man, probably of the AmaXhosa, wearing a leopard skin and holding a spear. Draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon. Dating: Oct-1777 - Mar-1786. Measurements: h 660 mm × w 480 mm; h 350 mm × w 217 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Bulto (Penitente Nazarine Christ). Dated: 1939. Dimensions: overall: 56.1 x 40.8 cm (22 1/16 x 16 1/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 50"high. Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Eldora P. Lorenzini.

Natives of the island of Ndzwani or Anjouan in the Comoros, north west of Madagascar, Africa. Man with codpiece and bow and arrows, woman with skirt and beaded necklace. 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.

Ah-móu-a, The Whale, One of Kee-o-kúk's Principal Braves. oil on canvas. Date: 1835. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Kút-tee-o-túb-bee, How Did He Kill, a Noted Brave. oil on canvas. Date: 1834. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Mina Lowry, Hitching Post Finial, c 1940 Hitching Post Finial

Excludes Old Egipian performances unknown

Nipissing man with musket and hatchet, woman in smock dress with necklace, of Lake Nipissing, Ontario, Canada, and Ottowa man with pipe, bow, quiver and axe, and woman in dress with beads. 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.

White Cloud, called the Prophet, advised Black Hawk, that he would achieve victory in his attempt to reclaim Sauk land in Illinois, previously ceded to the US. 1832 painting by George Catlin (BSLOC_2019_8_81)

'Man from the Samoan Islands', 1848. Artist: Unknown

This 1840s illustration shows a warrior from the island of Savu. Savu is the largest of a group of three islands, situated midway between Sumba and Rote, west of Timor, in Indonesia's eastern province, East Nusa Tenggara. Ferries connect the islands to Waingapu on Sumba, Ende on Flores, and Kupang in West Timor. Savu is part of the area of the world known as Oceania. Oceania is a geographic region that includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. Spanning the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, Oceania has a land area of 8,525,989 square kilometers.

Costumes de Différents Pays, 'Musiciens du Senegal'. 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

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

Mexico: nine Aztec figures including one (no. 6) identified as King Montezuma. Coloured aquatint by D. Klemi-Bonatti, ca. 1820.

Seated Arab, Delacroix, Eugene

Ko-mán-i-kin-o-haw, Little Whale, a Brave. oil on canvas. Date: 1831. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Drawing, Costume Design: Two Pirates, for Daphnis et Chloe; Leon Nikojajevitsch Rosenberg; Designed by Léon Bakst (Russian, born Belarus, 1866-1924); France; brush and watercolor, graphite on illustration board; 26.8 x 39.5 cm (10 9/16 x 15 9/16 in. )

Chee-a-ex-e-co, Daughter of Deer without a Heart. oil on canvas. Date: 1838. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

A couple sits by a campfire in the forest. The woman is drinking from a shell. They are wearing traditional clothing. Peoples of Tierra del Fuego Fuego , print maker: Ludwig Gottlieb Portman, (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Jacques Kuyper, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1805, paper, etching, h 237 mm × w 158 mm

Cigar Store Indian. Dated: c. 1938. Dimensions: overall: 71 x 47 cm (27 15/16 x 18 1/2 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and colored pencil on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Rolland Ayres.

Mandinka (Mandingo) man and woman of West Africa. From Mungo Park's Travels in the Interior of Africa. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handcoloured by Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzognos Collection of the Most Interesting Voyages (Raccolta de Viaggi Più Interessanti), Milan, 1815-1817.

Costumes of the natives of Ceylon (Sri Lanka): Sinhalese man with sword and cane, and indigenous Vedda man with feather skirt, bow and arrows, fur cape, and two dogs on leashes. 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.

MARTêNEZ COMPAîN Y BUJANDA, Baltasar Jaime (1735-1797). Trujillo del Perœ en el siglo XVIII. 1782 - 1785. Vol 2. Plate 121. 'Motilones de Lamas cuando andan a Caza' (Motilone people from Lamas going to hunt). Watercolour. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Palacio Real Library.

The beto, Benten, Yokohama, Japan. Old 19th century engraved illustration Travel to Japan by Aime Humbert from El Mundo en La Mano 1879

LA DANZA DE LOS ZAPATOS DE NIEVE - LITOGRAFIA - SIGLO XIX. Author: GEORGE CATLIN. Location: NATIONAL LIBRARY. France.

Quechua Mother. oil on canvas. Date: ca. 1890-1892. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

illustration from the 1895 version of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe tells the story of an explorer ship wrecked onto an island where he has to survive many challenges.

George Catlin, Bear Dance K'nisteneux, 1861 Bear Dance - K'nisteneux

Carolinian natives of the Marianas: man with cape over tattooed body, tattooed women with baby and basket, and men in loinclothes dancing. 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. Illustration from Freycinet's "Voyage autour du monde," 1824.

Indians, here a botokude with plate lip from southern Brazil, illustration from 1880, historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

GRABADO-REINA DE LAS ISLAS SANDWICH(HAWAI). Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. France.

King Sandaineh of Saloum, seated on a couch of reeds, Wolof or Jolof Empire, Senegambia, 18th century. In gold crown, cotton tunic, smoking a tobacco pipe. Scimitar and saddle on the walls. Apartment of the king of Salum. Bour-Salum dans sa case. After Rene Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuves LAfrique, Paris, 1814. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberls The World in Miniature: Africa, A description of the manners and customs Moors of the Sahara and of the Negro Nations, R. Ackermann, England, 1821.

Indian Siriniris. vintage engraved illustration. Le Tour du Monde, Travel Journal, (1872).

Fishpot of split bamboo, in foreground at Brailsford's, Jamaica, William Berryman, circa 1815

CODEX TRUJILLO DEL PERU - BOOK II - E, 43 - BLACK MAN - WATERCOLOR 18TH CENTURY. Author: MARTINEZ COMPAÑON BALTASAR. Location: PALACIO REAL-BIBLIOTECA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Apauly-Tustennuggee. oil on canvas. Date: 1825. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

'Head of Otegoongoon, son of a New Zealand chief, the face curiously tataow'd'. Engraving From A journal of a voyage to the South Seas : in His Majesty's ship, the Endeavour from the papers of Sydney Parkinson, embellished with views and designs, delineated by the Author, and engraved by capital artists. 1773

Footrace behind the Mandan Village. oil on canvas. Date: 1832-1833. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Black version of Genesis, from a drawing by Max Radiguet, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 513, Volume XX, December 25, 1852.

A man wearing a bathing costume. Coloured etching by Bracquet after C. Camino, ca. 1857.

Cigar Store Indian. Dated: c. 1938. Dimensions: overall: 41.7 x 30.7 cm (16 7/16 x 12 1/16 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and colored pencil on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Lucille Lacoursiere.

A Mandan Medicine Man. Dated: 1861/1869. Dimensions: overall: 47 x 63 cm (18 1/2 x 24 13/16 in.). Medium: oil on card mounted on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: George Catlin.

A Seminole Woman. oil on canvas. Date: 1838. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

The Maiden's Isle, Zanzibar. Maurice Randall (active 1899-1919). Oil on canvas. 74.9 x 101.7cm.

Engraving depicting a Hoodee o Gunna, the Maori Chieftain of the Ranghee Hoo tribe. Dated 19th century

Clothing in Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, Late Period, Ramesside, King Horemheb, 1374-1350 BC is carried by soldiers on a carrying chair, behind and in front of them the fan bearer and in front of them prisoners walk, digitally enhanced reproduction of a 19th century illustration

Portrait of a womaned knil soldier, Isaac Israels, painting Portrait of a Ghanaian soldier employed by the Dutch East Indian Army. When he was the name of the Dutch colonial army in the former Ghana slave fort - located in present -day Ghana - the name Kees Pop. His African name is unknown, he was the son of Komena and Ekoerva. "Pop" came into service in 1869 for twelve years and fought in the Aceh War in Indonesia. The medal with blue ribbon, half hidden under the sling, is the Aceh medal. This was established by the Royal Decree of 12 May 1874 as a reward for the participants in the first Aceh campaign in 1873/1874. The participants in this campaign also received the cross for important martial operations, the left award on the portrait with the green-orange ribbon. Israël's portrayed him in the Netherlands just before his return trip to Africa. Harderwijk hardboard. oil paint (paint) veteran. disabled soldier. medals and other marks of military honour

Africa. Shinte's reception in honour of Livingstone. Illustration by Serra Pausas. Chromolithograph. "La conquista de Africa" (The conquest of Africa), by Alfredo Opisso. Volume III. Published in Barcelona (Spain) by Molinas y Maza editores, 1911. Author: Joan Serra Pausas (active 1861-1902). Spanish artist.

Dancing Doll. Dated: c. 1939. Dimensions: overall: 28.7 x 22.4 cm (11 5/16 x 8 13/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 10 5/8" high; 16 1/2" long; 2 5/8" wide. Medium: watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Mina Lowry.

Cassava scrapers, 1820, engraving Africa, 19th Century.

Oceania. Micronesia. Koror native (Palau Island) aboard an European ship. Colored engraving, 1882.

Meskwaki warriors Muk-a-tah-mish-o-kah-kaik, Black Hawk 283, his son Nah-se-us-kuk, Whirling Thunder 284, Wah-pe-kee-suck, White Cloud or the Prophet 285, and Wee-sheet, Sturgeon's Head 286. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, London, 1841.

Pacific Islands. Marquesas Islands. Tattooed man from Nuka Hiva, 1840. Colored engraving. 19th century.

Historia de Africa. Siglo XIX. Esclava trabajando llevando a su hijo atado a la espalda. Grabado por F. Tegelmeyer. 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.

Span-e-o-née-kaw, The Spaniard. oil on canvas. Date: 1828. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

A woman wearing a pink saree with a snake wrapped around her body. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.

Robert Clark, Negro Mammy Bank, c 1937 Negro Mammy Bank

'Milk Merchants', 1828. Artist: Marlet et Cie

ISLAS, AndrŽs de (18th c.). From Wolf and Black: Chinese. 1774. Painting num. 10. Casta paintings. Mexican school. Colonial baroque. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. America's Museum.

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