Skip to main contentDescriptionPlate #31 from "Travels in the Interior of North America." Mounted American Indians, the central figure with bow and arrow, within a herd of bison in a barren, hilly landscape. Second state.
Indians Hunting the Bison
Artist/Maker
Karl Bodmer
Switzerland, 1809 - 1893
Date1839
MediumHand-colored Aquatint and Etching on Paper; stipple
Dimensionssight: 14 3/4 × 18 1/4 in. (37.5 × 46.4 cm)
frame: 23 1/8 × 26 7/8 in. (58.7 × 68.3 cm)
Credit LineThe Pierce Collection from Roy Pierce and Winnifred Poland Pierce, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberW2001.167.003
ClassificationsPrint
On View
Not on viewCharles M. Russell
Titian Ramsay Peale
Published 1830 and 1832