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sault by the medicine pipe, their driving him onto
the prairie, his emasculation, and the return of
the women in triumph. In the intervening century
the times and the morals have changed. We can
be grateful to Catlin, who depicted and described
activities no longer available for study and gave
rise to a tradition in the graphic arts and writing
to which Ewers is the heir and master.
In Artists of the Old West (1973), which he
dedicates to his daughter Diane, who shares her
father's talents and interests in the Old West,
Jack has assembled his previous monographic
studies of individual artists who were at once
explorers and historians, from Charles Wilson
Peale to Charles M. Russell. The portraits of
Charles Bird King and John Neagle are especially
Ewers, John C.
1939. Plains Indian Painting: A Description of an Aboriginal
American Art. Palo Alto: Stanford University
Press.
1955. The Hoise in Blackfoot Indian Culture, with Comparative
Material from Other Western Tribes.
Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin, 159.
1958. The Blackfeet: Raiders on the Northwestern Plains. Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press.
1965. Artists of the Old West. Garden City, New York:
Doubleday and Company.
Ewers, John C, editor
1967. 0-Kee-Pa: A Religious Ceremony and Other Customs of
the Mandans, by George Catlin. New Haven: Yale
University Press.
1969. The Indians of Texas in 1830, by Jean Louis Berlan-
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important just now, when certain extant collections
may be scattered into private hands. Peter
Rindisbacher's dancers and domestic scenes have
an especial appeal. And Karl Bodmer's "Hidatsa
Dog Dancer" recalls the frontispiece of Wissler's
American Indian (1922). As a student of the Iroquois
I am particularly grateful for the pencil sketches
of Pierre, an Iroquois farmer, and Aeneas, the
Iroquois guide to Father DeSmet, by Gustavus
Sohon for what they convey about the Iroquois
voyageurs in the West and because they link Jack
to my own area of research.
On this note let me end this tribute to an old
friend and an esteemed scholar who has illuminated
a whole area of discovery for our enlightenment.
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Press.
Kroeber, A.L.
1959. The History of the Personality of Anthropology.
American Anthropologist, 61:398-404.
Riegel, Robert E.
1969. Review of the Indians of Texas in 1830, by Jean
Louis Berlandier. Dartmouth Alumni Magazine
(June), page 14.
Wissler, Clark
1922. The American Indian: An Introduction to the Anthropology
of the New World. 2nd edition. New York: Oxford
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1942. The American Indian and the American Philosophical
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86:189-204.
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