ART OF SETII EASTMAN — McDERMOTT 591 



"Transporting the Wounded,'' dancing the sun dance and the dance 

 of the giant Indian, and "striking the post" as volunteers for a war 

 party boast of their deeds. The women are shown "feeding the 

 dead," procuring fuel, and are portrayed in an excellent pencil 

 sketch, "Sioux Indians Playing the Game of Plum Stones" (pi. 7). 

 A buffalo hunter is dismounted, a buffalo is being skinned, a skin is 

 being prepared by the women. An Indian seer attempts to destroy 

 a girl by means of a pencil of light. Winnebagoes dance the medi- 

 cine dance in the lodge (in contrast to that of the Sioux danced in the 

 open, the subject of an earlier oil) . 



Eastman's production during this third period of his art career 

 was not limited to the work for the Schoolcraft volumes. Mrs. East- 

 man published a series of volumes of Indian lore, all illustrated by 

 her husband. "Dahcotali; or, Life and Legends of the Sioux around 

 Fort Snelling" (1849) had been completed before they left the north- 

 ern post. For it Captain Eastman supplied four illustrations, all 

 lithographed by Ackerman. To "The Iris, An Illuminated Souvenir 

 for 1852" ]Mrs. Eastman contributed a number of stories and poems 

 about the Indians; her husband furnished eight pictures which were 

 atrociously chromolithographed. Happily, watercolors of all these 

 subjects are in the collection of the James Jerome Hill Reference 

 Library, among which are "The Laughing Waters, Three Miles 

 below the Falls of St. Anthony," "Indians Courting," "Wenona's 

 Leap," "Marriage Custom of the Indians," "The Falls of St. An- 

 thony," and "Mission Chapel of San Jose" [22]. Two more of Mrs. 

 Eastman's books illustrated by the works of her husband, "The 

 American Aboriginal Portfolio" (1853) and "Chicora and other 

 Regions of the Conquerors and Conquered'' (1854), contain no new 

 work by the painter; the 21 and 26 pictures, respectively, in these 

 volumes were from the plates of "The Indian Tribes of the United 

 States." (Lippincott, Grambo & Co. of Pliiladelphia was the pub- 

 lisher of all three works.) 



In addition to these watercolors one of Eastm.an's finest extant 

 oils, "Sioux Indians" (pi. 8), was painted in 1850 while in Wash- 

 ington from sketches made while in Minnesota. Tliis painting por- 

 trayed a group of Indians by a riverside. 



Tliat Eastman's interest was not confined to the past and to the 

 Indian country is made clear by a sketchbook in the M. and M. 

 Karolik Collection at the r)Oston Museum of Fine Arts (now not 

 available for publication), which contains among others about 25 

 sketches of Washington and its vicinity drawn soon after his arrival 

 in 1850. The Bushnell Collection at the Peabody Museum also has 

 many drawings and watercolors of Washington and Virginia about 

 this time. 



