Karl Bodmer (1809-1893), Idols of the Mandan Indians Ethnographic Outraged by the violence

Outraged by the violence

but this multi-stone color lithograph was printed by Bachman himself

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Europeans read avidly of the sights and experiences of  the voyage

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Karl Bodmer (1809-1893), Idols of the Mandan Indians Ethnographic Outraged by the violenceKARL BODMER From Travels in the Interior of North America Hand colored aquatint engravings Paris, 1832 1843 Sheet Size: 24 3 4 x 18 THE MOST ACCLAIMED BOOK ON AMERICAN INDIAN LIFE AND THE AMERICAN FRONTIER. Karl Bodmer was a little known Swiss painter when he was chosen by Prince Maximilian of Prussia to accompany his voyage to America, in order to document in pictorial terms the expedition. With the rest of Maximilians company, the two traveled among