Details
Contributor King, Charles Bird, 1785-1862, artist.
Lehman & Duval Lithrs., lithographer.
Title Rantchewaime.
Alternate title Rant-Che-Wai-Me : Female Flying Pigeon / painted by C.B. King ; Lehman & Duval Lith's. ; entered according to act of Congress in the year 1837 by E.C. Biddle in the Clerks [sic] office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pa.
Publisher Philadelphia : Published by E.C. Biddle.
Date [1836?]
Physical description 1 print : lithograph (hand-colored) ; 30.9 x 22.4 cm.
Description Waist-length portrait of Rantchewaime, wearing earrings and necklaces, and holding a fan constructed of feathers.
Notes In McKenney, T. L. and J. Hall. History of the Indian tribes of North America, v.1 (Philadelphia, 1836), plate opposite p. 147. Also in 1838-1844 edition.
"Rantchewaime has been known, after her return from Washington, to assemble hundreds of the females of her tribe, and discourse to them on the subject of ... vicious courses which she witnessed ... among the whites, and to warn them against like practices."--P. 148.
Genre Portrait prints -- 1830-1839.
Lithographs -- 1830-1839.
Subject Rantchewaime -- Portraits.
Iowa Tribe.
Indian women -- North America.
Indians of North America.
Women.
Is part of Portraits of American Women
Has format TMP.objres.7442.jpg