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Show 75 Notes 1. See the following watercolors in the Joslyn Art Museum collection and the corresponding sketches held by the Newberry Library: The Joslyn Art Museum The Newberry Library KBA#164 Omaha Boy: Profile of Bov . KBA#175 Ho-Ta-Ma Ho-Ta-Mek KBA#189 Tukan-Hatdn Tukan-haton. Yankton (also a preliminary for Tableau 12, with Psfhja Sahpa). KBA#205 Blackfeet Assiniboin Girl Assiniboin girl KBA#241 Mexkemauastan Mexkemauastan #13 and Mexkemauastan #6 KBA#252 Pioch-Kiaiu Pioch-Kiaiu KBA # 254 Unidentified Man Unidentified man KBA # 289 Pachtuawa-Chta Pachtuawa-Chta KBA #312 Mahchsi-Nihka Mahchsi-Nihka KBA #315 Sih-Sa Sfh-Sa KBA #323 Awascho-Dickfas KBA #324 Awascho-Dickfas Rear-view of a Monnitarri KBA #327 Ahschupsa Masihichsi Guerrier Moenitarri KBA #328 Unidentified Man Unidentifed man 2. Guerrier Moenitarri. the Newberry Library; Ahschupsa Masihichsi. Hidatsa Man. KBA #327. See also notes 20, Chapter Two and 1, Chapter Three. 3. Alexandre Manceau, born in Trappes (Seine-et-Oise) in 1817, in addition to his career as an etcher, had the distinction of being secretary to the author George Sand, who had also taken an interest in Bodmer's and George Catlin's work. Manceau also etched Tableau 18, Bison Dance, one of the most famous of Bodmer's aquatints. Manceau died in 1865. 4. It is possible that Manceau was simply less skilled and was unable to duplicate the watercolor portrait. However, the only other aquatint for Travels etched by Manceau, Tableau 18, Bison Dance, was executed in a photographic style similar to that of Scalp Dance. 5. People of the First Man, p. 34. |