And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Mato-Tope, Adorned with the Insignia of his Warlike Deeds, plate 14 from Volume 2 of ‘Travels in the Interior of North America’, 1843, Karl Bodmer
I already had a collection of Johann Carl Bodmer's illustrations of American Indians stored on my computer, but I didn't have this particular one.
So, as I always do when encountering a work of art, I searched the Internet for the highest resolution of that image, which I downloaded, and is now in my "JOHANN CARL BODMER" folder, which is in my "AMERICAN INDIANS" folder, which is in my "OLD WEST" folder, which is in my "ART" folder, stored in the "PHOTOS" folder on my computer's hard drive, with the "ART" folder currently used as my computer's screensaver.
THANK YOU for posting this!
ReplyDeleteI already had a collection of Johann Carl Bodmer's illustrations of American Indians stored on my computer, but I didn't have this particular one.
So, as I always do when encountering a work of art, I searched the Internet for the highest resolution of that image, which I downloaded, and is now in my "JOHANN CARL BODMER" folder, which is in my "AMERICAN INDIANS" folder, which is in my "OLD WEST" folder, which is in my "ART" folder, stored in the "PHOTOS" folder on my computer's hard drive, with the "ART" folder currently used as my computer's screensaver.
Again, thank you for making this possible!
Here is the URL for that highest resolution image:
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With my ancient eyes I can't read the script..what tribe?
ReplyDeleteI think it said the Fukowie tribe
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DeleteHe'll keeya, gutya, and eatya with the same tool.
ReplyDeleteYEP just like a BUSTED RUBBER AND A RATTLESNAKE! Somphin ya DON'T...nevermind you know!
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