Object number:
2010.54.10039
Object name:
poster; work on paper
Title:
We did not think of / the great open plains...
Maker:
Akwesasne Notes, George Catlin
Date made:
Circa 1975
Material / Technique:
Offset lithograph on paper
Dimensions:
H: 17.5 in, W: 22.5 in
Credit line:
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
Copyright status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Physical description:
Offset lithograph; This poster has a thin, magenta border inside a .5 to 1 inch margin. A sepia toned photograph of a male figure wearing an animal skin covers the poster inside the margin.
Content description:
A sepia toned photograph of a male figure wearing an animal skin covers the poster inside the margin. To the right of the figures hear is a quote in white reading "We did not thing of / the great open plains, / the beautiful rolling / hills, and winding / streams with tangled / growth, as 'wild'. Only / to the white man / was nature a 'wilder- / ness' infested with / 'wild' animals and / 'savage' people. To / us it was tame. Earth / was bountiful and we / were surrounded with / the blessings of the / Great Mystery.
Concepts:
North American Indian; male; animal skin; nature
Persons:
Standing Bear
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