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18th Century
'Histoire de la Virginie...'
by Robert Beverley 1707
(Beinecke Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Yale University)
"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)
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)
The true Effiges of the Four Indian Kings taken from the Original
after Simon Vereist
(The British Museum)
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)
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)
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)
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)
A Squaw... an Indian
by George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend c. 1751 - 1758
(National Portrait Gallery)
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.)
by Charles Echard
c. 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 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)
Captain Redhead
The only known image of a Catawba from the 18th Century c. 1771
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)
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)
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)
'Travels through the Interior Parts of North-America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768'
by Jonathan Carver 1778
Stockbridge Indian
c. 1776
The Widow of an Indian Chief Watching the Arms of Her Deceased Husband
by Joseph Wright of Derby 1785
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)
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)
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
OR WHO SHALL
London 1776
(Lewis Walpole Library)
OR WHO SHALL
London 1776
(Lewis Walpole Library)
THE COMMISSIONERS
by M. Darly 1778
(European Political Print Collection - American Antiquarian Society)
The Great
Swamp Fight
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