Bodmer_Publication

TAB. 48 «INDIANISCHE GERÄTHSCHAFTEN UND WAFFEN»
“INDIAN UTENSILS AND ARMS”
same time, the stories that go with each have been recorded. Catlin received a
painted buffalo robe showing his major war deeds as a gift from Mato-Tope. 14
Due to the fact that Catlin’s robe no longer exists and that the origin of another
robe, possibly painted by Mato-Tope and lodged in the Swiss Historical Museum
in Bern, is uncertain, the buffalo robe at the Linden-Museum Stuttgart is the only
pictorial document that stems without doubt from the hand of the Mandan chief.
Mato-Tope also painted his fight with the Cheyenne on paper, using Bodmer’s
watercolors. 15 This image was incorporated in the travelwork as Tableau 22, titled
„Fac-Simile of an Indian painting.”
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