Title: O-kee-pa: a religious ceremony: and other customs of the Mandans. Author: George Catlin Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military ...
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Title: O-kee-pa: a religious ceremony: and other customs of the Mandans. Author: George Catlin Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Huntington Library DocumentID: SABCP04102800 CollectionID: CTRG02-B856 PublicationDate: 18670101 SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America Notes: Appendix contains testimonials about Catlin, his work and the Mandan Indians. An unauthorized ed. appeared (London, 1865) under title: An account of an annual religious ceremony practised by the Mandan tribe. Collation: vi, 52 p., [13] leaves of plates: col. ill.; 26 cm
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Cloth, hard cover in dust jacket., very small and faint stain to top edge, hardly visible. tiny edge-chip to dj back panel bottom. minor rubbing to dj in a few small spots. no other flaws, clean, no writing or markings. strong binding. an above average copy.; pre-isbn.; ix-106pp., 13 color plates. reproduces 1867 original with 33pp. introduction.
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First edition of Catlin's important work on the Mandan people and their rituals, one of the only records of the Mandan tribe which was almost entirely exterminated in the smallpox epidemic of 1837. Octavo, original publisher's green beveled cloth with gilt titles and double gilt ruling to the front panel, illustrated with thirteen tissue-guarded chromolithographic plates after Catlin by Simonau & Toovely, half-title present, coated green endleaves, all edges gilt. From the library of American businessman and amateur archaeologist William H. Claflin Jr. with his pictorial bookplate to the pastedown. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable, especially in this condition. American portraitist and painter George Catlin spent nearly fourteen years among the tribes of the North American Indians and left the most authentic anthropological record of the swiftly vanishing people. He wrote O-Kee-Pa in response to an article that appeared in an 1866 issue of Truebner's that attributed him as the author of an "indescribably lascivious pamphlet" on the secret customs of the Mandans. O-Kee-Pa is therefore as much a defense of Catlin as of the Mandans, a tribe native to the west side of the Missouri River, most of whom were destroyed by a smallpox epidemic in 1837. Catlin states in his preface that of the many customs he had recorded, nothing was so peculiar and surprising as the O-kee-Pa ceremony of the Mandans which was a crucial part of their survival and incorporated a number of "shocking" sexual rituals which, considered too salacious for the general public, were included in a separately issued three-page "Folium Reservatum, " in an edition of approximately twenty-five copies. Because the Mandan were almost completely exterminated by smallpox in 1837, virtually no other documentation of this ceremony exists. Field 262; Sabin 11543.
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Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library copy with usual markings. DJ in mylar sleeve. Pages lightly tanned. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.