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18th Century Material Culture

The Native Americans


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The
18th Century

July 14th, 1703


Prices of Goods Supplied to the Eastern Indians

'Histoire de la Virginie...'
by Robert Beverley 1707
(Beinecke Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Yale University)

The Four Indian Kings.


by Bernards Lens III 1710
(New York Historical Society)

"Tee Yee Neen Ho Ga Row Emper" - Emperor of the Six Nations


Painted on His Visit to England by Bernard Lens III 1710
(The British Museum)

"Sa Ga Yean Qua Rah Ton" - King of the Maquas in North America
Painted on His Visit to England by Bernard Lens III 1710
(The British Museum)

"Sa Ga Yean Qua Rah Ton" - King of the Maquas in North America
Painted on His Visit to England by Bernard Lens III 1710
(The British Museum)

"Oh Nee Yeath Ton no Rion" - Ganajoh-Hare


Painted on His Visit to England by Bernard Lens III 1710
(The British Museum)

"Oh Nee Yeath Ton no Rion" - Ganajoh-Hare


Painted on His Visit to England by Bernard Lens III 1710
(The British Museum)

"Etow Oh Koam" - King of the River Nations in North America


Painted on His Visit to England by Bernard Lens III 1710
(The British Museum)

"Etow Oh Koam" - King of the River Nations in North America


Painted on His Visit to England by Bernard Lens III 1710
(The British Museum)

Tee Yee Neen Ho Ga Row, Emperor of the Six Nations in North America
by Queen Annes Court Painter, John Verelst 1710
(Library and Archives Canada)

"Sa Ga Yean Qua Rah Ton" - King of the Maquas in North America
by Queen Annes Court Painter, John Verelst 1710
(Library and Archives Canada)

Oh Nee Yeath Ton no Rion (Iroquois John) - A Pro-English Mohawk & Diplomat
by Queen Annes Court Painter, John Verelst 1710
(Library and Archives Canada)

Etow Oh Koam, King of the River Nations in North America


by Queen Annes Court Painter, John Verelst 1710
(Library and Archives Canada)

Tee Yee Neen Ho Ga Row, Emperor of the Six Nations


after John Verelst (c. 16751734)
(Museum of Southern Decorative Arts)

Sa Ga Yeath Qua Pieth Tow, King of the Maquas


after John Verelst (c. 16751734)
(Museum of Southern Decorative Arts)

Ho Nee Yeath Taw No Row, King of Generethgarich


after John Verelst (c. 16751734)
(Museum of Southern Decorative Arts)

Etow Oh Koam, King of the River Nation


after John Verelst (c. 16751734)
(Museum of Southern Decorative Arts)

The true Effiges of the Four Indian Kings taken from the Original
after Simon Vereist
(The British Museum)

Iroquois with Western Goods


from Histoire de l'Amrique septentrionale: divise en quatre tomes By: Bacqueville de La Potherie 1722
(Amicus Collections, Canada)

Souase Oke Charinga, Americanischer printz,


Featured in Sammlung von natur- und Medicin- wie auch hierzu gehrigen Kunst- und Literatur-Geschichte
by David Richter Leipzig, 1722
(Amicus Collections, Canada)

Portrait of Prince Touanohoui


by Jonathan Richardson, Sr. c, 1724 - 1725
(DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum - Colonial Williamsburg)

OUTACITE Chief of the CHEROKEES


c. 1731
(Library and Archives Canada, Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana)

Guerrier Renard (Fox Warrior)


by Unknown 1732
(Bibliotheque National de France)

Renard Fox, Indian Slave


1732

"James Oglethorpe Presenting the Yamacraw Indians to the Georgia Trustees"


by Willem Verelst c. 1734 - 1735
(DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum - Colonial Williamsburg)

The Common Council of Georgia Receiving the Indian Chiefs


by Willem Verelst c. 1734 - 1735
(DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum - Colonial Williamsburg)

The Common Council of Georgia Receiving the Indian Chiefs


by Willem Verelst c. 1734 - 1735
(DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum - Colonial Williamsburg)

Attakapas Indians of Louisiana Visiting New Orleans


Detail from Desseins de Sauvages de Plusieurs Nations, Nue Orleans, 1735
by Alexandre du Batz c. 1735
(Peabody Museum, Harvard University)

TEMPLE des Sauvages... CABANE du chief...


by Alexandre du Batz c. 1735
(Peabody Museum, Harvard University)

Choctaw Men & Children


by Alexandre du Batz c. 1735
(Private Collection)

Creek Indians Tomachachi and Tooanahowi


Engraved by John Faber the Younger after William Vereist c. 1735
(Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts)

Tishcohan, Delaware of the Leni-Lenape


by Gustavus Hesselius, 1735
(Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia)

Lapowinska Delaware of the Leni-Lenape


by Gustavus Hesselius, 1735
(Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia)

From the Drawings and Journal of 25 Year Old Philip Georg Friedrich von Reck
Executed When He Sailed from Germany to Georgia in 1736
(Birmingham Public Library)

From the Drawings and Journal of 25 Year Old Philip Georg Friedrich von Reck
Executed When He Sailed from Germany to Georgia in 1736
(Birmingham Public Library)

The Indian King and Queen of the Yuchis


From the Drawings and Journal of 25 Year Old Philip Georg Friedrich von Reck
Executed When He Sailed from Germany to Georgia in 1736
(Birmingham Public Library)

A war dance...
From the Drawings and Journal of 25 Year Old Philip Georg Friedrich von Reck
Executed When He Sailed from Germany to Georgia in 1736
(Birmingham Public Library)

Indians going a-hunting


From the Drawings and Journal of 25 Year Old Philip Georg Friedrich von Reck
Executed When He Sailed from Germany to Georgia in 1736
(Birmingham Public Library)

A Indian Camp
From the Drawings and Journal of 25 Year Old Philip Georg Friedrich von Reck
Executed When He Sailed from Germany to Georgia in 1736
(Birmingham Public Library)

The Mico of the Yuchi named Senkaitschi


From the Drawings and Journal of 25 Year Old Philip Georg Friedrich von Reck
Executed When He Sailed from Germany to Georgia in 1736
(Birmingham Public Library)

An Indian woman weaving a basket of reed


From the Drawings and Journal of 25 Year Old Philip Georg Friedrich von Reck
Executed When He Sailed from Germany to Georgia in 1736
(Birmingham Public Library)

An Indian who lived with us for a time


From the Drawings and Journal of 25 Year Old Philip Georg Friedrich von Reck
Executed When He Sailed from Germany to Georgia in 1736
(Birmingham Public Library)

Huts of the Iroquese Indians


From the Drawings and Journal of 25 Year Old Philip Georg Friedrich von Reck
Executed When He Sailed from Germany to Georgia in 1736
(Birmingham Public Library)

Cherokee Indians
Engraved by Isaac Besire after a Painting by Markham c. 1740 - 1760
(Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts)

The brave old Hendrick the great SACHEM of Chief of the Mohawk Indians... Ye Subject to the King of Great Britain
by Eliz. Bakewelll c. 1740
(John Carter Brown Library, Brown University)

The brave old Hendrick the great SACHEM of Chief of the Mohawk Indians... Ye Subject to the King of Great Britain
by Eliz. Bakewelll c. 1740
(New York Public Library)

"Indians with ancient and French weapons"


by J.-F. Benjamin Dumont de Montigny 1744
(Canadian Museum of History)

An Indian of ye Outawas Tribe & his Family going to War


by George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend c. 1751 - 1758
(National Portrait Gallery)

An Indian War chief completely equipped with a scalp in his hand


by George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend c. 1751 - 1758
(National Portrait Gallery)

An Indian pursuing a wounded enemy with his Tomahawk


by George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend c. 1751 - 1758
(National Portrait Gallery)

An Indian dressed for war with a scalp


by George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend c. 1751 - 1758
(National Portrait Gallery)

An Indian who has - his Enemy,.. to scalp him


by George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend c. 1751 - 1758
(National Portrait Gallery)

An Indian in his war dress and Blanket


by George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend c. 1751 - 1758
(National Portrait Gallery)

A Squaw... an Indian
by George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend c. 1751 - 1758
(National Portrait Gallery)

Mr. Peter Williamson on the Dress of the Delaware Indian


French and Indian cruelty: exemplified in the life, and various vicissitudes of fortune, of Peter Williamson London 1752
(John Carter Brown Library, Brown University)

Mr. Peter Williamson on the Dress of the Delaware Indian


French and Indian cruelty: exemplified in the life, and various vicissitudes of fortune, of Peter Williamson London 1752
(John Carter Brown Library, Brown University)

El Santismo Christo De La Ensina


c. 1760

Robert Adams 1761

Ostenaco / Skiagusta Uku / Mankiller of the Cherokees


by Sir Joshua Reynolds 1762
(Gilcrease Museum)

Oconostota's (Cherokee) French Commission as "Captaine grand chef medaille de la fond"


Presented to Him by the French Governor of Louisiana, Louis de Kerlerec in 1761
(U.S National Archives)

Illustration on Glass of Either Cumnacatouge or Ostenaco, Cherokee Chiefs who Met with King George III in London
c. 1762
(Martyn Edgell Antiques, Ltd.)

Illustration on Glass of Either Cumnacatouge or Ostenaco, Cherokee Chiefs who Met with King George III in London
c. 1762
(Martyn Edgell Antiques, Ltd.)

The Indian Chief Cunne Shote (Cumnacatogue) or Standing Turkey


Escorted to London in 1762 by Virginia Lieutenant Henry Timberlake
by Francis Parsons c. 1762
(Gilcrease Museum; Tulsa, Oklahoma)

The Indian Chief Cunne Shote (Cumnacatogue) or Standing Turkey


Escorted to London in 1762 by Virginia Lieutenant Henry Timberlake
Engraved by James McArdell after a Painting by Francis Parsons c. 1762
(Museum of Southern Decorative Arts)

Savage Warrior Taking Leave of His Family


by Benjamin West 1762

by Charles Echard
c. 1763

'Storia degli stabilimenti europei in America'


Francesco Bartolozzi after Benjamin West 1763

General Johnson Saving a Wounded French Officer from the Tomahawk of a North American Indian
byr Benjamin West c. 1764 - 1768
(Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby, England)

The Three Cherokees, come over from the head of the River Savanna to London, 1762
by George Bickham c. 1765

The Three Cherokees, come over from the head of the River Savanna to London, 1762
by George Bickham c. 1765
(Colonial Williamsburg)

The Three Cherokees, come over from the head of the River Savanna to London, 1762
by George Bickham c. 1765

A Topographical PLAN of that part of the INDIAN COUNTRY


through which the Army under the Command of COLONEL BOUQUET marched in the Year 1764...
(William Clements Library)

A Topographical PLAN of that part of the INDIAN COUNTRY


through which the Army under the Command of COLONEL BOUQUET marched in the Year 1764...
(William Clements Library)

A Topographical PLAN of that part of the INDIAN COUNTRY


through which the Army under the Command of COLONEL BOUQUET marched in the Year 1764...
(William Clements Library)

A Delaware Indian
Pierre-Franois-Xavier de Charlevoix,
A voyage to North-America: undertaken by command of the present King of France, Dublin, 1766
(John Carter Brown Library, Brown University)

The Indians giving a talk to Colonel Bouquet in a Conference at a Council fire near his Camp... 1764
by Charles Grignion after Benjamin West 1766
(New York Public Library)

The Indians giving a talk to Colonel Bouquet in a Conference at a Council fire near his Camp... 1764
by Charles Grignion after Benjamin West 1766
(The British Museum)

The Indians delivering up the English Captives to Colonel Bouquet


by Pierre Charles Canot after Benjamin West 1766
(The British Museum)

Parrawankaw & Dr. Squintum


by A. Hamilton Junr. Fleet Street, London 1769
(Library of Congress)

The Death of General Wolfe


by Benjamin West 1770
(National Gallery of Canada)

Captain Redhead
The only known image of a Catawba from the 18th Century c. 1771

Habit of an Ottawa an Indian Nation of North America


by Thomas Jefferys c. 1757 - 1772
(Library and Archives Canada)

Habit of a Mohawk one of the Six Nations


by Thomas Jefferys c. 1757 - 1772
(New York Public Library)

Portrait of the Indian Chief, Red Jacket


by Baroness Anne-Marguerite-Hyde de Neuville c. 1758 - 1830
(New York Historical Society)

A NEW HUMOROUS SONG, ON THE CHEROKEE CHIEFS...


1762
(The British Museum)

PHILIP, KING of Mount Hope


by Paul Revere 1772
(American Antiquarian Society)

PHILIP, KING of Mount Hope


by Paul Revere 1772
(Yale University Art Gallery)

Detail - Royal American Magazine


1774

Caracyeristick Chicasaw head


From A concise Natural History of East and West-Florida by Bernard Romans, Philadelphia, 1776
(John Carter Brown Library, Brown Universiety)

Characteristick head of a Creek War Chief


by Bernard Romans, Surveyor for England in what is now the Gulf Coast in the Early 1770s
From: A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida
(Private Collection)

Sketch by John Andre - Tavern Scene at Quebec 1775


Two Light Infantrymen from H.M. 7th Regiment of Foot at Left
(L. Clements Library)

Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill)


by Benjamin West 1776
(National Gallery of Art -Andrew W. Mellon Collection)

Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill)


by Benjamin West 1776
(National Gallery of Art -Andrew W. Mellon Collection - Photo Courtesy Dan Center)

Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill)


by Benjamin West 1776
(National Gallery of Art -Andrew W. Mellon Collection - Photo Courtesy Dan Center)

Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill)


by Benjamin West 1776
(National Gallery of Art -Andrew W. Mellon Collection - Photo Courtesy Dan Center)

JOSEPH THAYENDANEKEN COMMONLY CALLED BRANT, A MOHAWK CHIEF.


London Magazine 1776
(Toronto Public Library)

This was a very wise and moderate Sachem of the Wyandott? or Huron nation his name in that Language Quosquiandorong.
by Henry Hamilton c. 1776 - 1778
(Harvard University - Houghton Library)

This resembles strongly, Wawecaughten a Chief of the Poutcowattamie nation.


by Henry Hamilton c. 1776
(Harvard University - Houghton Library)

Tzentoritzi
by Henry Hamilton c. 1776 - 1778
(Harvard University - Houghton Library)

The name of this Miami chief is Pacane - I made him a present of a silver mounted Couteau His Father of the same name having
taken down from a stake when he was to have been roasted. Cap Morris of the 17th Regt Infantry an and friend of many years standing
by Henry Hamilton c. 1776 - 1778
(Harvard University - Houghton Library)

I have forgot the name of this Indian - He was one of those characters, always to be found among the Indians.
He travels from Village to Village, being provided with news, generally to suit his own views - Many are termed
bad or birds of ill omen as he reports generally had to intimidate had to be the best road to accomplish his views
by Henry Hamilton (pre- 1779)
(Harvard University - Houghton Library)

Papiguenne, Native American man from area north of Montreal, Quebec.


by Henry Hamilton
(Harvard University - Houghton Library)

A Jibboway Indian - / an occasional visitor to the Detroit area from the far north
by Henry Hamilton c. 1776 - 1778
(Harvard University - Houghton Library)

This man was a very respected Warrior of the Mohawk nation - his name in the Huron or Wyandatt
language is Shangress in the Iroquois Otcheek
by Henry Hamilton
(Harvard University - Houghton Library)

Joseph Brant (Tayadanega)


by George Romney 1779
(National Gallery of Canada)

JOSEPH TAYADANEEGA, called the BRANT.


after George Romney 1779
(Toronto Public Library)

Joseph Brant (Tayadanega)


by Gilbert Stuart 1786
(Fenimore Art Museum)

Joseph Brant (Tayadanega)


by Henry Bone 1786
(Joseph Brandt Museum, Burlington, Ontario)

'Travels through the Interior Parts of North-America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768'
by Jonathan Carver 1778

Depiction of a Native American Smoking a Pipe


bt Thomas Bewick c. 1778 - 1790
(The British Museum)

Stockbridge Indian
c. 1776

A Man and Woman of the Ottigaumies


byJonathan Carver 1781

The Widow of an Indian Chief Watching the Arms of Her Deceased Husband
by Joseph Wright of Derby 1785

A PLAN of the INHABITED Part of the PROVINCE of QUEBEC.


by James Peachey c. 1785
(Library and Archives Canada)

Mohawk Woman and Her Baby


French Watercolor 18th Century
(Collection of Alan Taylor)

Unknown Sitter, Possibly Iroquois


c. Late 18th Century
(DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum - Colonial Williamsburg)

Hopothle Mico, or the Talassee King of the Creeks


by John Trumbull 1790
(New York Public Library)

Tuskatche Mico, or the Birdtail King of the Cusitahs


by John Trumbull 1790
(New York Public Library)

The Infant - Chief of the SenecaIndians.


by John Trumbull 1792
(Yale University Art Gallery)

Good Peter Chief of the Onieda Indians


by John Trumbull 1792
(Yale University Art Gallery)

MICO CHLUCCO the LONG WARRIOR or KING of the SIMINOLES


From 'Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia,... by William Bartram 1791
(Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University)

MICO CHLUCCO the LONG WARRIOR or KING of the SIMINOLES


From 'Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia,... by William Bartram 1791
(Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University)

Grand Chef de Guerriers Iroquois


by J.G. de St. Sauveur c. 1795
(Library and Archives Canada)

Guerrier Iroquois
by J.G. de St. Sauveur c. 1795
(Library and Archives Canada)

Sauvagesse Iroquoise
by J.G. de St. Sauveur c. 1795
(Library and Archives Canada)

Homme et Femme Iroquois


by J.G. de St. Sauveur c. 1795
(Library and Archives Canada)

Iroquois allant la Dcouverte


by J.G. de St. Sauveur c. 1795
(Library and Archives Canada)

Abenaki Couple
18th Century
(Gagnon Collection, Montreal Public Library)

Algonquin Couple
18th Century
(Gagnon Collection, Montreal Public Library)

Huron Couple
18th Century
(Gagnon Collection, Montreal Public Library)

Huron Deer Hunt

Austenaco, Great Warrior - Commander in Chief of the Cherokee Nation

The MOHAWK INDIAN Warrior With his Tomax, Scalping-Knife &c.

A Native American from the Great Lakes Region (Michigan / Detroit)


by an Unknown French Artist Mid 18th Century
(Private Collection)

A Native American from the Great Lakes Region (Michigan / Detroit)


by an Unknown French Artist Mid 18th Century
(Private Collection)

Lieutenant, Sir John Caldwell, H.M. 8th Regiment of Foot in Indian Dress, Assigned to Niagara & Detroit 1774 - 1780
c. 1780
(Liverpool Museum of England)

Map Cartouche from the October 1775 Issue of The Pennsylvania Magazine
(The Ann S.K. Brown Collection, Brown University)

Map Cartouche from the October 1775 Issue of The Pennsylvania Magazine
(The Ann S.K. Brown Collection, Brown University)

Map Cartouche from the October 1775 Issue of The Pennsylvania Magazine
(The Ann S.K. Brown Collection, Brown University)

Portrait of a Cherokee
by William Hodges (1747 - 1797)
(Hunterian Museum)

Portrait of a Cherokee
by William Hodges (1747 - 1797)
(Royal College of Surgeons of England)

Native Americas
as
Symbols of America

The Colonies Reduced Its Comparison


1767
(European Political Print Collection - American Antiquarian Society)

The COURT COTILLION, Or the Premiers new Parl------t Jig.


1774
(European Political Print Collection - American Antiquarian Society)

OR WHO SHALL
London 1776
(Lewis Walpole Library)

OR WHO SHALL
London 1776
(Lewis Walpole Library)

The Parricide: A Sketch of Modern Patriotism


London 1776
(Lewis Walpole Library)

THE COMMISSIONERS
by M. Darly 1778
(European Political Print Collection - American Antiquarian Society)

Detail: The Tea Tax Tempest or the Anglo - American Revolution


1778
(European Political Print Collection - American Antiquarian Society)

THE PRESENT STATE OF GREAT BRITAIN


by James Phillips, Published by William Humphrey 1779
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

THE ENGLISH LION DISMEMBERD


by E. Hedges 1780
(Lewis Walpole Library)

JOHN BULL TRIUMPHANT.


by W. Humphrey 1780
(European Political Print Collection - American Antiquarian Society)

The BULL ROASTED, or the POLITICAL COOKS Serving their CUSTOMERS


by I. Harris 1780
(European Political Print Collection - American Antiquarian Society)

THE STATE COOKS MAKING PEACE -------- PORRIDGE


by Edward Hedges 1782
(The British Museum)

The RECONCILIATION between BRITANIA and her daughter AMERICA.


by Thomas Cowley, Published by William Humphrey 1782
(The British Museum)

The BELLIGERANT PLENIPOS


by T. Colley 1782
(Lewis Walpole Library)

The SAVAGES let loose, OR The Cruel FATE of the LOYALISTS


by W. Humphrey 1783
(Lewis Walpole Library)

The Great
Swamp Fight

Col. BENJAMIN CHURCH (1639 - 1718)

Col. BENJAMIN CHURCH (1639 - 1718)

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