Mandan tribal migration & place of extinction—Smallpox—Catlin 1841 (1892) map
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'A chart showing the moves of the Mandans and the place of their extinction'
Catlin’s chart traces Mandan locations he identified along the Ohio and Missouri river systems, ending at the Upper Missouri site he labelled the “place of their extinction”. It accompanied his speculative theory that the Mandan descended from Prince Madoc’s supposed Welsh colony and migrated from the Ohio country—an idea now discredited—so it records Catlin’s imagination as much as Mandan geography. The sheet is inseparable from the catastrophic 1837 smallpox epidemic, after which Catlin incorrectly concluded that the nation had disappeared. The Mandan survived and form part of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation. Read critically beside his portraits and village views, the chart is valuable evidence of nineteenth-century ethnographic speculation and the extinction narrative imposed on Indigenous peoples. Colour-reprinted from the original plate around 1892.
Size 24 x 15 cm | 9.5 x 6.0 inches
Date Published: 1841 (c1892)
Type: Chromolithographic colour Mandan historical ethnographic chart
Author: Catlin, George
Publication: George Catlin's North American Indians
Condition: Good |
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