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1865 Original Hand colored lithograph STUM-A-NU, A FLAT HEAD BOY, from the Royal octavo edition of McKenney & Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America (STUMANU)
1865 Original Hand colored lithograph STUM-A-NU, A FLAT HEAD BOY, from the Royal octavo edition of McKenney & Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America (STUMANU)
1865 Original Hand colored lithograph STUM-A-NU, A FLAT HEAD BOY, from the Royal octavo edition of McKenney & Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America (STUMANU)
1865 Original Hand colored lithograph STUM-A-NU, A FLAT HEAD BOY, from the Royal octavo edition of McKenney & Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America (STUMANU)
1865 Original Hand colored lithograph STUM-A-NU, A FLAT HEAD BOY, from the Royal octavo edition of McKenney & Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America (STUMANU)
1865 Original Hand colored lithograph STUM-A-NU, A FLAT HEAD BOY, from the Royal octavo edition of McKenney & Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America (STUMANU)

1865 Original Hand colored lithograph STUM-A-NU, A FLAT HEAD BOY, from the Royal octavo edition of McKenney & Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America (STUMANU)

HISTORY OF THE INDIAN TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA

STUM-A-NU, A FLAT HEAD BOY, 1865.
Paper size 10 1/4 x 6 5/8" (26.2 x 16.6 cm).
Great condition and color.

THIS ORIGINAL PORTRAIT COMES FROM THE SUPERB 1865 ROYAL OCTAVO EDITION OF: McKenney & Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America: A very desirable important and appealing plate from the superb 1865 royal octavo edition published by Rice & Rutter, Rice and Hart listed as publisher on the print, the litho printed & hand colored by J.T Bowen. Printed on nice thick paper, verso blank. The colors are very rich and deep. The plates from this collection are among the most superbly executed and historically important American lithos of the 19th century.

 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.  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.

Publisher : Published by D. Rice and A. N. Hart, Philadelphia.From the octavo edition of "History of the Indian Tribes of North America" by Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall. Lithograph, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia.

18th-19th Century Subjects , Western & Indian.

Stum-ma-nu, ca. 1819-1839 (Chinook) was born near the mouth of the Columbia River and became a successful student in the Methodist missionary school of Rev. Jason Lee in the Willamette Valley near present-day Salem, Oregon.  This portrait was painted in 1838 or 1839 when the subject toured eastern cities to assist Lee in raising funds for his missionary efforts.  Stumanu died in New York City.

The Chinook are a tribe of Indians inhabiting the shores of the Columbia river, near the Pacific ocean. They practice the savage custom of flattening the foreheads of their infants by means of a board applied to that part, whence they are called Flatheads by the whites, as others are called Nez Percé, Pierced Nose Indians, although neither of these terms is used among themselves. Most of those Indians who flatten the head also pierce the nose. These singular customs were found, by the first discoverers, among the savages on the shores of the Atlantic; but they seem to have become extinct in our country, except in the distant region of the Columbia. The name Flathead having been arbitrarily given, some explanation is necessary to avoid confusion.