Karl Bodmer (1809-1893), Idols of the Mandan Indians Landscape & City From Lake Michigan

From Lake Michigan

A Carmelite friar

just fifteen years after his expedition

the good relations initially established with the Indian tribes inhabiting the territories around the settlement site at St

Watercolor for plate 172: “Martinico Iris” Iris martinicensis

Karl Bodmer (1809-1893), Idols of the Mandan Indians Landscape & City From Lake MichiganKARL 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