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Beckwourth, James Pierson, Mrs.
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Title
Beckwourth, James Pierson, Mrs.
Alternate title
Beckwourth punishes his disobedient wife.
Publisher
[New York : s.n.]
Date
[1856?]
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; 11.3 x 7.9 cm.
Description
Recumbent portrait of Mrs. Beckwourth after her husband struck her with the side of his battle-axe.
Notes
In The life and adventures of James P. Beckwourth (New York, 1856), p. [116].
The Native American woman died after her husband punished her for disobeying him when she chose to dance in celebration of the scalping of three white men. After her death, her father (a Flat Head) prevented Beckwourth from being killed, and also presented him with the wife’s younger sister as a replacement wife.
Genre
Engravings -- 1850-1859.
Portrait prints -- 1850-1859.
Subject
Women.
Beckwourth, James Pierson, Mrs. -- Portraits.
Uxoricide.
Indians of North America
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