8 THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



This contained 99 pages, and 420 numbers of North American Indian 

 pictures (cartoons), 27 of La Salle's discovery, and 156 South American 

 views. 



The "Bibliography of George Catlin," herein, will give in full the 

 titles and dates of his catalogues and several works. 



VIEWS OF THE INDIAN GALLERY AND MUSEUM. 



Two views of Catlin's Indian Gallery and Museum are given. The 

 first the gallery as it was in Egyptian Hall, London, in 1845, with an 

 Iowa chief (whom Mr. Catlin had met in the western portion of the 

 United States some years before and painted him — see pages 2 to 20, vol. 

 2, Catlin's Notes in Europe) speaking, Mr. Catlin also on the platform. 

 This plate is from a sketch by Mr. Catlin. 



The second view of the gallery is also by Mr. Catlin, and represents 

 it as it originally appeared in the United States and in Europe up and 

 to 1848. This sketch is of the gallery as it was set up in the Salle de 

 France, Louvre, "Paris, at the request of the king of France, Louis 

 Philippe, in June, 1846 (see pages 290, 291, and 292, vol. 2, Catlin's 

 Notes in Europe). The Crow lodge on the right is shown in picture No. 

 491 of this catalogue, and the lodge is now in the National Museum. 



CERTIFICATES AS TO AUTHENTICITY OF HIS PAINTINGS AND OBJECTS. 



Mr. Catlin was a very careful man in the matter of the authentication 

 of his Indian portraits, landscapes, and scenes. He not only proved 

 his portraits by the very dresses and objects seen in them, but added to 

 these certificates from Indian agents, officers of the Army who were 

 with him, and Indian traders, and the Fur Company's agents or inter- 

 preters. 



Mr. Catlin says: 



In addition to the above certificates (general ones'), nearly every portrait has insepa- 

 rably attached to its back an individual certificate, signed by Indian agents, officers 

 of the Army, or other persons, who were present when the picture was painted. The 

 form of these certificates is as follows : 



No. 131. — Blackfoot, Pe-toh-pe-kiss (the Eagle-Ribs). 



I hereby certify that this portrait was painted from the life, at Fort Union, mouth 

 of Yellowstone, in the year 1832, by George Catlin, and that the Indian sat in the 

 costume in which it is painted. 



JOHN F. A. SANFORD, 

 United States Indian Agent. 



Three facsimiles of certificates of portraits are here given: 



In some cases Mr. Catlin obtained certificates for the objects in his 

 museum; one such is also herein given in fac-simile. 



