Native American Portraits

Artistic depictions of Native American figures showcasing traditional attire and cultural elements, conveying the heritage and identity of indigenous tribes.

Tah-Col-O-Quoit, illustration

Chef Camacan Mongoyo.. Debret, Jean Baptiste (1768-1848). Prints, Illustrations. 1834 - 1839. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Brazil , Social life and customs, Indians , Kings and rulers, Indians of South America , Brazil

Photo collection Government information service. An Angolan man. Drawing to a painting by Albert Eckhout (1610-1665) located in the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. undated. Copenhagen

The last of the Charruas. From: The Natural History of Man by James Cowles Prichard prints, etchings, works on paper

Headdress decorated with traditional hair from the tribe of Lovale, Central Africa. Old 19th century engraved illustration from Journey from Zanzibar to Benguela by Verney Lovett Cameron, Le Tour du Monde 1877

Native Peruvian of Chiruntia region, Peru, South America. Old XIX century engraved from Le Tour du Monde 1864

Dobuzhinsky, Mstislav Valerianovich (1875-1957) State Central A. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Moscow 1915 33,2x23,6 Watercolour, gouache, gold und white colours on paper

'An heiva, or kind of priest of Yoolee-Etea, & the neighbouring islands' .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 note Yoolee-Etea (Ulietea, now known as Raiatea)

Aymara Youth. oil on canvas. Date: ca. 1890-1892. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Mówakiu-Tsawatenok. Edward S. Curtis; American, 1868-1952. Date: 1914. Dimensions: 38.8 x 27.8 cm (image); 44.1 x 31.3 cm (paper); 56.5 x 46.2 cm (mount). Photogravure, plate 332 from "The North American Indian, Volume 10" (1915). Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA. Author: Edward S. Curtis.

Hoo-Wan-Ne-Ka, a Winnebago chief. drawn, printed & coloured at the Lithographic & Print Colouring Establishment, by John Bowen, 1801-1856

Mówakiu-Tsawatenok Made 1914 United States. Photogravure, plate 332 from The North American Indian, Volume 10 (1915) . Edward S. Curtis

Doll. Dated: 1935/1942. Dimensions: overall: 36.7 x 28.2 cm (14 7/16 x 11 1/8 in.) Original IAD Object: 9 1/2" high. Medium: watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: David S. De Vault.

c.1816 Art/Book illustration, Topless woman of the Sandwich Islands

Head and shoulders portrait of a Maori man, his hair in a topknot with feathers and a bone comb, full facial moko, a greenstone earring, a tiki and a flax cloak. He has a small beard and a moustache. Sydney Parkinson (1745-1771) was the artist on Captain Cook's first voyage to New Zealand in 1769. Ta moko is the permanent body and face marking by Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand. Traditionally it is distinct from tattoo and tatau in that the skin was carved by uhi (chisels) rather than punctured. This left the skin with grooves, rather than a smooth surface. Captain Cook wrote in 1769: 'The marks in general are spirals drawn with great nicety and even elegance. One side corresponds with the other. The marks on the body resemble foliage in old chased ornaments, convolutions of filigree work, but in these they have such a luxury of forms that of a hundred which at first appeared exactly the same no two were formed alike on close examination'. The tattooists were considered tap

Winnebago men: chief Naw-kaw, Wood 254 and Wah-chee-hahs-ka, Man Who Puts All Out of Doors 255, with rattlesnake skins on his arms holding a war club and tobacco pipe. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, London, 1841.

Costumes de Différents Pays, 'Gentilhomme du Roÿaume d'Aardra'. 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

Historia de Africa. Siglo XIX. El Congo. Indígena de Kimbedi, región del Kuilu. Grabado por W. Meyer. 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.

Steeh-tcha-kó-me-co, Great King (called Ben Perryman), a Chief. oil on canvas. Date: 1834. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Three Fox Indians. oil on canvas. Date: 1837-1839. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Riccarree Chief and His Wife. Dated: 1861/1869. Dimensions: overall: 47 x 63.5 cm (18 1/2 x 25 in.). Medium: oil on card mounted on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: George Catlin.

Beggar woman with a stick. Płoński, Michał (1778-1812), graphic artist

"A Savage of Botany Bay." Australian aborigine, naked, with beard and afro, decorated with tattoos, carrying a stick.. 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.

Tuch-ee, war chief of the Cherokee nation. Handcoloured lithograph by J. Harris after a painting by George Catlin Handcoloured lithograph by J. Bull from James Cowles Prichard's Natural History of Man, Balliere, London, 1855.

George Catlin, Three Young Tobos Men, 1854 1869 Three Young Tobos Men

Fuch - ee : a Cherokee war chief From: The natural history of Man by James Cowles Prichard prints, etchings, works on paper

George Catlin, Two Weeah Warriors and a Woman, 1861 1869 Two Weeah Warriors and a Woman

Kee-O-Kuh. Artist: Nicolino Calyo, Italian, 1799-1884

GRABADO-PAPU DE HAVRE DOREY- NATURAL DE NUEVA GUINEA. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. France.

Portraits of Botocudo men of Brazil with their distinctive wooden plugs in the lip and ear. Botocudos. Handcoloured woodcut by L. Markaert after Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied 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. Wahlen was the pseudonym of Jean-Francois-Nicolas Loumyer (1801-1875), a writer and archivist with the Heraldic Department of Belgium.

'The Bloody Hand', One of the chiefs of the Riccaree tribe, 1841.Artist: Myers and Co

Palawa woman and child of Van Diemen's Land, Tasmania, Australia. Extinct. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature: The Asiatic Islands and New Holland, R. Ackermann, London, 1824.

A Yuma Chief, His Daughter, and a Warrior. Dated: 1855/1869. Dimensions: overall: 46.5 x 62.1 cm (18 5/16 x 24 7/16 in.). Medium: oil on card mounted on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: George Catlin.

Costumes de Différents Pays, 'Mulatre Libre du Mexique'. 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

The chief of the Kohuedi, Central Africa. Old 19th century engraved illustration from Journey from Zanzibar to Benguela by Verney Lovett Cameron, Le Tour du Monde 1877

Historic 1832 Catlin painting of a Blackfeet Medicine man dressed in a decorated bear skin robe

Native of Outanata, New Guinea. He wears a grass skirt, waistband, bracelet and chest pouch, and carries a bamboo stick and cudgel. Handcoloured lithograph by Madeley after an illustration from nature by G. van Raalten. Taken from G.W. Earl's "The Native Races of the Indian Archipelago: Papuans." Handcoloured lithograph from James Cowles Prichard's Natural History of Man, Balliere, London, 1855.

Seminole Chief Osceola, by George Catlin, painted in January 1838. Osceola was imprisoned by the US Army and suffered from malaria when he posed for Catlin. The portrait depicts his feathered hat, embroidered sash over the patterned fabric. Around his neck are three crescent-shaped ceremonial metal gorgets (BSLOC_2019_8_64)

Four Recruits in White Dhotis, page from the Fraser Album. India; Haryana. Date: 1810-1820. Dimensions: 25 x 37.8 cm (9 7/8 x 21 3/8 in. ). Opaque watercolor on paper. Origin: India. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Indians, here a man from Tierra del Fuego, South America, Illustration from 1880, Historical, historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

George Catlin, Osage Chief with Two Warriors, 1861 1869 Osage Chief with Two Warriors

"The Caffre Woman." Woman of South Africa, nursing a baby.. . 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 h

The Young Beggars, c. 1800. Karl Ludwig Bernhard Buchhorn (German, 1770-1856). Aquatint; sheet: 31.2 x 23.1 cm (12 5/16 x 9 1/8 in.); platemark: 25.3 x 19.6 cm (9 15/16 x 7 11/16 in.).

Oó-je-en-á-he-a, Woman Who Lives in a Bear's Den. oil on canvas. Date: 1832. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIAH (BLACK HAWK-A SAUKIE BRAVE) LITHOGRAPH King, Charles Bird 1785 d1862 American Private Collection

George Catlin, Four Fuegian Indians, 1856 1869 Four Fuegian Indians

Native americans, by George Catlin, (1794-1872), USA, Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art

A K'nisteneux Warrior and Family. Dated: 1861/1869. Dimensions: overall: 47 x 63.8 cm (18 1/2 x 25 1/8 in.). Medium: oil on card mounted on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: George Catlin.

Diferentes razas humanas. Grabado de 1858.

I-GRABADO 1845-INDIOS UPSANOKA DEL MISSOURI. Location: BIBLIOTECA PUBLICA. NEW YORK CITY.

Figurehead: Indian. Dated: 1935/1942. Dimensions: overall: 50.5 x 30.6 cm (19 7/8 x 12 1/16 in.). Medium: watercolor and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Ingrid Selmer-Larsen.

Hee-doh'ge-ats, a Young Man. oil on canvas. Date: 1837-1839. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

A beggar with a ball; Płoński, Michał (1778-1812); around 1800 (1796-00-00-1805-00-00);

George Catlin, Three Auca Children, 1854 1869 Three Auca Children

Native of Mozambique. From: The Natural History of Man by James Cowles Prichard, circa 1842, by J Bull, Hippolyte Baillière. Gift of Miss E March, 1951.

A good shot according to the image of Conrad Beckmann. A clip from a German magazine. Beckmann, Conrad (1846 1902), Ruff, Louis (N.n.)

Archery of the Mandans, pl. 24 from the North American IndianPortfolio. Artist: George Catlin, American, 1796-1872

After: John Faber, the Younger, British, born Holland, 1684-1756, Tomo Chachi Mico or King of Yamacraw, and / Tooanahowi his Nephew, Son to the Mico of the Etchitas (d.1739), probably1734, Mezzotint, sheet: 44.3 × 29.5 cm (17 7/16 × 11 5/8in.), Made in United Kingdom, British, 18thcentury, Works on Paper -Prints

Attributed to Gangaram Chintaman Tambat, active 1790s, Anglo-Indian, Man with a Black Shawl, undated. Watercolor, graphite, and gouache with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

Man and woman of the Isle of Tanna, Vanuatu, 1818. They wear grass skirts and necklaces, the man holds a cudgel and the woman panpipes. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Vennings A Geographical Present being Descriptions of the Principal Countries of the World, Darton, Harvey and Darton, London, 1818. Venning wrote educational books on geography, conchology and mineralogy in the early 19th century.

Lapland man. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1885

Albert Newsam, after Henry Inman, after Charles Bird King, Payta Kootha, a Shawnee Warrior, 1836 Payta Kootha, a Shawnee Warrior

Copper Chief, His Wife, and Children. Dated: 1855/1869. Dimensions: overall: 46.6 x 61.9 cm (18 3/8 x 24 3/8 in.). Medium: oil on card mounted on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: George Catlin.

Joseph Michael Bohm (4, 1795 in Pest, died March 28, 1876 in Vienna) was an Austrian violinist and composer. He was one of the most important violin teachers of the 19th century and is considered the founder of the Viennese violin school. Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original.

Aymara Doctor. oil on canvas. Date: ca. 1890-1892. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Top Senegal, Fulani, vintage engraved illustration. Le Tour du Monde, Travel Journal, (1872).

Danza, by Giovanni Sasso. Acquisition history unknown.

Native man of distinction from Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, with club, fan, loincloth and full body tattoos. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature, The South Sea Islands, Ackermann, 1824. After an illustration by Wilhelm Tilesius from Adam Krusenstern's Voyage, 1813.

Painting By Charles Bird King Of Five Native American Indian Warriors

Busts of Maori men with face tattoos or Ta moko from New Zealand. Man from Tolaga Bay with feather in his hair (top) and man from Cape Terawhiti (below). Types des naturels de la Nouvelle Zelande. Handcoloured woodcut by Mercier 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.

"The Senegal Negro female." A woman of Senegal holding a spear.. 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.

Samoan Woman. oil on canvas. Date: ca. 1885-1899. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Jack Carr, Pa German Pie Plate, c 1937 Pa. German Pie Plate

c.1818 Hawaii, Painting of Boki and Hekili on Sloop Kamchatka, detail Boki

France, French Crown, Paris, Henriet, Israel, Bella, Stefano della, Plusieurs testes coiffees a la Persienne, Various heads of Persian figures, Dark slave with horse with feathers on his head, verso - stamped, print, prints, height 100 mm, width 74 mm, Italian, 1610-05-18 - 1664-07-27, print maker, printmaker, 1649 - 1650, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Publication (Event), Publication, French, 1590 - 1661, publisher, uitgever van privilege

Guarany, from the opera of the same name by Gomez and Hermann from the opera Loreley by Catalani, digitally restored reproduction of a public domain collector's picture from ca 1900, Liebig picture series Alphabet II, opera figures (1892)

Woman by Leon Bakst, Pencil, watercolour, gold on paper, 1912, 1866-1924, Private Collection, 44x36

Trading on the Plains. The Indian inDoubt. Lithographer: Unknown Publisher: Haskell & Allen, active Boston, 19th century

Hand-colored engraving from 'Moeurs, Usages, et Costumes de tous les Peuples de Monde, d'apres des Documents Authentiques et les Voyages les plus Recents', by Auguste Wahlen (Brussels, 1843-44).

This 1840s illustration shows a man from Formosa, the island of Taiwan as named by Portuguese mariners in 1544. In Portuguese formosa means beautiful.

Mieczys Aw Reyzner (1861-1941), cheerful and Kumoszka, 1916; Salon Painters Publishing House (Kraków; 1895-1949); around 1916 (1916-00-00-1927-00-00);

George Catlin, Two Saukie Chiefs and a Woman, 1861 1869 Two Saukie Chiefs and a Woman

Cingue, Chief of the AmistadCaptives. Artist: John Sartain, American, born Britain, 1808-1897 After: Nathaniel Jocelyn, American, 1796-1881

George Catlin, The Sioux Chief with Several Indians, American, 1796 - 1872, 1861-1869, oil on card mounted on paperboard

Indians, here a man of the Telembis, America, illustration from 1880 / Indianer, hier ein Mann der Telembis, Amerika, Illustration aus 1880, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.

Man from the South Seas, after a drawing by the explorer Jean-Francois de Galaup, c. 1780, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Indians, here a man of the Telembis, America, Illustration from 1880, Historical, historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Ketchwayo, King of the Zulu, red shiner (1853), Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown

Man and woman of Jagga, from the kingdoms of Monoemugi and Caffraria, Africa, 1818. Chaga people of Tanzania with woven skirts, bow, quiver and arrows, basket. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Vennings A Geographical Present being Descriptions of the Principal Countries of the World, Darton, Harvey and Darton, London, 1818. Venning wrote educational books on geography, conchology and mineralogy in the early 19th century.

Portrait of an inhabitant of Ombay in Indonesia Anthropophage d'Ombay Landscapes and people seen on a world tour Promenade autour du monde , print maker: Jacques Etienne Victor Arago, (mentioned on object), printer: Pierre Langlumé, (mentioned on object), Paris, 1822, paper, h 352 mm - w 270 mm

A Choctaw Woman. oil on canvas. Date: 1834. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Figurehead: Turk's Head. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 39.7 x 31.4 cm (15 5/8 x 12 3/8 in.). Medium: watercolor and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Henry Murphy.

'New Caledonian Flute Player; Some Account of New Caledonia', 1875. From 'Illustrated Travels' by H.W. Bates. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London and Galpin.

A retainer from Rajgarh, India, circa 1902

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