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Title
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Selling the 'Noble Savage' Myth: George Catlin and the Iowa Indians in Europe, 1843-1845
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Description
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This study is partly about the American artist George Catlin and his white contemporaries who promoted a mythical image of Native Americans for profit. Their story is relatively well known to historians and other scholars. The added dimension in this narrative is a group of Indians--the Iowas--the 'commodity' that Catlin and others peddled to the public. Article is illustrated with many of Catlin's paintings.
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Date
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2006
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
