A short three-act play interrogates George Catlin’s highly popular 19th century traveling Indian Gallery, examining Catlin’s paintings, and his use of Native Americans as actors in his plays.
CatlinG (1848a) Catlin’s Notes of Eight Years’ Travels and Residence in Europe, with His North American Indian Collection, with Anecdotes and Incidents of the Travels and Adventures of Three Different Parties of American Indians Whom He Introduced to the Courts of England, France, and Belgium, in Two Volumes, vol. I. London: Published by the Author at his Indian Collection, Printed by William Clowes and Sons.
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CatlinG (1848b) Catlin’s Notes of Eight Years’ Travels and Residence in Europe, with His North American Indian Collection, with Anecdotes and Incidents of the Travels and Adventures of Three Different Parties of American Indians Whom He Introduced to the Courts of England, France, and Belgium, in Two Volumes, vol. II. London: Published by the Author at his Indian Collection, Printed by William Clowes and Sons.
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EwersJC (1979) Introduction. In: EwersJC (ed.) Indian Art in Pipestone: George Catlin’s Portfolio in the British Museum. Washington, DC: British Museum Publications Ltd and Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 7–20.
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GurneyGThau HeymanT (eds) (2002) George Catlin and his Indian Gallery. Washington, DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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HamellGR (1989) Mohawks abroad: the 1764 Amsterdam etching of sychnects. In: FeestCF (ed.) Indians in Europe: An Interdisciplinary Collection of Essays. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 175–194.
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McNamaraB (1971) The Indian medicine show. Educational Theatre Journal23(4): 431–451.
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MulveyC (1989) Among the Sag-a-noshes: Ojibwa and Iowa Indians with George Catlin in Europe, 1943–1848. In: FeestCF (ed.) Indians in Europe: An Interdisciplinary Collection of Essays. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 253–276.
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ReddinP (1999) Wild West Shows. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
