click zoom to display a high-res image
Indian Lacrosse Players
Image
Indians with ball-playing equipment, believed to be used in the game of Lacrosse. (Plate 21)"In devoting a few of the last pages of this work to some of the principal amusements of the North American Indians, I have commenced with the beautiful game of Ball, decidedly the favorite and most exciting game of the American tribes. Amongst the forty-eight tribes which I have visited, I find the game of Ball everywhere played; and to any great surprise, by tribes separated by a space of three thousand miles, played very nearly in the same manner; the chief difference consisting in the different construction of the ball-sticks used-the modes of laying out the ground- and painting and ornamenting their bodies. In most of the tribes there are certain similar regulations as to dress, ornaments, etc., which no one is allowed to depart from; and in the three portraits given in the illustration here, these peculiar and general modes are all set forth."
1844
Catlin, George, 1796-1872
Publication Information
Physical Description
Collection Information
Copyright Information
W014CMC
WHi 23639
Image
Digital Collections
Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
The Wisconsin Historical Society offers an ever-growing digital collection. Digitized materials reflect the full range of items in the collections including photographs, letters, newsletters, films, posters, architectural drawings, menus, and ephemera.
Attribution
For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
Accessing Collections
The vast majority of the items in our collections are not online. The Society owns thousands of archival collections viewable in our Archives reading room. To view and conduct research in our collections, visit us in person.
Ball-Play Dance
1844
Choctaw Indians performing dance (Plate 22)."As I have mentioned in former pages that for nearly all their hunts, wars, or games, the events of which the Indians superstitiously believe to be contr...
Ball Play
1844
Large group of Indians engaged in the game of lacrosse (Plate 23)."Having in the two former illustrations and their chapters, explained to the readers the costume and preliminaries of the Ball-play...
North American Indians
1844
Portrait of North American Indians (Plate 1)."The group in Plate No. 1 is composed of three Portraits from my collection, representing three different tribes of various latitudes and well illustrat...
Antelope Shooting
1844
Indian with rifle in prone position hunting antelope (Plate 20)."The antelope of the prairies and Rocky Mountains of America, which I believe to be different from all other known varieties, forms o...
Archery of the Mandans
1844
Mandan Indians engaged in archery competition (Plate 24)."The meeting represented here is something like that of an Archery Club in the civilized world, but for a different mode of shooting. Having...
