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drawings and paintings which form a precious record of our 

 copper-colored predecessors before they had become largely Euro- 

 peanized. A number of these paintings are in the United States 

 National Museum in Washington, a number are in the American 

 Museum of Natural History in New York, a few are in the Harvard 

 University Peabody Museum and others are scattered through- 

 out the country. Many of these paintings are portraits, usually 

 not of any great art merit. As works of art they will doubtless be 

 greatly surpassed by some of the pictures now being painted. But 

 as ethnological data they are exceedingly important and will always 

 hold their own. 



One of these painters of Indians was J. O. Lewis, who painted 

 a good many portraits of chiefs of various tribes, Sioux, Winne- 

 bagoes, Chippewas, etc., and who published a portfolio of colored 

 lithographs of them.^ Many of his models were garbed in a hybrid 

 European dress and the lithographs are too poor to render ac- 

 curately the heads. 



Another painter of Indian portraits was C. B. King. Some of 

 his paintings were reproduced by colored lithography in McKenney's 

 and Hall's book- and historically they are of importance. The 

 frontispiece of the book by P. Rinetisbacher (in text Rhinedes- 

 bacher) is an interesting picture of an Indian dance. 



One amateur artist who portrayed sporadically Indians was Cap- 

 tain Sully, U. S. A., son of the portrait painter Thomas Sully. In a 

 lecture before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, on January 

 14, 1918, Mr. Henry Budd stated that Captain Sully while on 

 frontier duty made some sketches of Indian life. 



Captain S. Eastman, U. S. A., made a number of drawings of 

 Indian scenes, which were engraved for Schoolcraft's great work.^ 

 Some of these were from his own sketches, apparently made while 

 he was on active service along the frontier. But some of his draw- 

 ings were from sketches by other persons, Schoolcraft himself, Lt. 



1 J. O. Lewis, " The Aboriginal Portfolio," Philadelphia, 1835. 



2 Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall, " History of the Indian Tribes 

 of North America," Philadelphia, 1836, 1842, 1844. 



3 Henry R. Schoolcraft, " Historical . .' . Information . . . Respecting the 

 History ... of the Indian Tribes," etc. Illustrated by S. Eastman, Capt. U. 

 S. A., Philadelphia, 1851. 



