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1848 Original Hand colored lithograph of NE-O-MON-NI, AN IOWAY CHIEF, plate 82, from the octavo edition of McKenney & Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America (NEOMONNI)
1848 Original Hand colored lithograph of NE-O-MON-NI, AN IOWAY CHIEF, plate 82, from the octavo edition of McKenney & Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America (NEOMONNI)
1848 Original Hand colored lithograph of NE-O-MON-NI, AN IOWAY CHIEF, plate 82, from the octavo edition of McKenney & Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America (NEOMONNI)
1848 Original Hand colored lithograph of NE-O-MON-NI, AN IOWAY CHIEF, plate 82, from the octavo edition of McKenney & Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America (NEOMONNI)
1848 Original Hand colored lithograph of NE-O-MON-NI, AN IOWAY CHIEF, plate 82, from the octavo edition of McKenney & Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America (NEOMONNI)
1848 Original Hand colored lithograph of NE-O-MON-NI, AN IOWAY CHIEF, plate 82, from the octavo edition of McKenney & Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America (NEOMONNI)
1848 Original Hand colored lithograph of NE-O-MON-NI, AN IOWAY CHIEF, plate 82, from the octavo edition of McKenney & Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America (NEOMONNI)
1848 Original Hand colored lithograph of NE-O-MON-NI, AN IOWAY CHIEF, plate 82, from the octavo edition of McKenney & Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America (NEOMONNI)
1848 Original Hand colored lithograph of NE-O-MON-NI, AN IOWAY CHIEF, plate 82, from the octavo edition of McKenney & Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America (NEOMONNI)
1848 Original Hand colored lithograph of NE-O-MON-NI, AN IOWAY CHIEF, plate 82, from the octavo edition of McKenney & Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America (NEOMONNI)
1848 Original Hand colored lithograph of NE-O-MON-NI, AN IOWAY CHIEF, plate 82, from the octavo edition of McKenney & Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America (NEOMONNI)
1848 Original Hand colored lithograph of NE-O-MON-NI, AN IOWAY CHIEF, plate 82, from the octavo edition of McKenney & Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America (NEOMONNI)
1848 Original Hand colored lithograph of NE-O-MON-NI, AN IOWAY CHIEF, plate 82, from the octavo edition of McKenney & Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America (NEOMONNI)
1848 Original Hand colored lithograph of NE-O-MON-NI, AN IOWAY CHIEF, plate 82, from the octavo edition of McKenney & Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America (NEOMONNI)
1848 Original Hand colored lithograph of NE-O-MON-NI, AN IOWAY CHIEF, plate 82, from the octavo edition of McKenney & Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America (NEOMONNI)
1848 Original Hand colored lithograph of NE-O-MON-NI, AN IOWAY CHIEF, plate 82, from the octavo edition of McKenney & Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America (NEOMONNI)

1848 Original Hand colored lithograph of NE-O-MON-NI, AN IOWAY CHIEF, plate 82, from the octavo edition of McKenney & Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America (NEOMONNI)

McKenney & Hall, History of the Indian Tribes of North America,

NE-O-MON-NI, AN IOWAY CHIEF, WITH HIS PEACE PIPE.

Hand-Colored Octavo Lithograph after Charles Bird King, Plate No 82.

 Publ. Rice, Rutter & C. 1848-50

Paper size 10 1/4 x 6 5/8" (26.2 x 16.6 cm). Great condition and color.

This original, hand-colored lithograph comes from the octavo edition of McKenney & Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America, published by Rice, Rutter & Co and the plate number of this lithograph is No 82.

An admirer and supporter of the American Indians, Thomas McKenney spent his tenure in office fighting for their cause and preserving their legacy through a gallery of paintings that were commissioned by various artists. Unfortunately, the original paintings burned in a fire, and all that is left to remember these Indians are the lithographs found in History which were modeled off the paintings.

This print is an original antique print, not a modern reproduction, from History of the Indian Tribes of North America.  It is authentic. Due to its age, it may have slight imperfections such as foxing so, please, examine the octavo carefully to be satisfied, as photos tell better than words.

This is the fifth chief, in grade, in the Ioway tribe. In attempting to describe his own age, he said that he was born when his tribe made war, the first time, upon the Osages, and that, he believed, was about forty years ago. This is as near as the Indians usually approach to accuracy in regard to their own ages. He describes himself as having had a pacific disposition in childhood, and as having no desire to kill anything until he was ten years old. At that time a great flight of wild pigeons covered the country, and he went out with other boys to kill them. Having been employed for some days in this way, he became fond of the sport, and then killed a squirrel. After that his brothers offered him a gun, of which at first he was afraid, but, being induced to receive it, he went out and shot a turkey. He remembers that, while yet a boy, being one day in the village, some warriors returned from an expedition, shouting, and making a great noise. The people collected around them, while the warriors sung and danced, and exhibited the scalps they had taken. His father took him by the hand, and said to him, “Son, listen to me. Look at those scalps, and at those great warriors! This is what I like to see. Observe those braves, and learn to follow their example-. Go to war and kill too, and the chiefs will look upon you as a brave man.” Such teaching would not be lost upon a boy, and least of all upon the Indian lad, whose first lesson inculcates the shedding of blood, and whose innate destructiveness, practiced in the beginning upon the lesser animals, is rapidly developed and improved as his strength increases, by the strongest incentives, until it attains its maximum in the great exploit of manslaughter.