| McKenney and Hall Gallery |
| History of the Indian Tribes of North America with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs Embellished with One Hundred and Twenty Portraits From the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at Washington | |||
| From 1816 until 1830, Thomas McKenney was Superintendant of Indian Affairs and one of a very few government officials to defend American Indian interests. When a large delegation of Indians came to see President Monroe in 1821, McKenney commissioned the fashionable portraitist Charles Bird King to paint the principal delegates, dressed in costumes of their choice. The portraits hung in the War Department until 1858, when they were moved to the Smithsonian Institute. Andrew Jackson dismissed McKenney in 1830, but allowed him to have the portraits copied by Henry Inman, so that lithographs could be made from McKenney's 'Indian Gallery'. Additional images were taken from paintings by James Otto Lewis, George Catlin and other artists. James c. Hall, a Cincinnati judge and novelist, contributed an historical and anecdotal text. The portfolio nearly bankrupted McKenney as well as the two printing firms who invested in its publication. But their work proved to be much more valuable than they imagined. Catlin's paintings of Indians were destroyed in a warehouse fire; Charles Bird King's portraits and James Otto Lewis' watercolors burned in the Smithsonian fire of 1865. The McKenney and Hall portraits remain as the most complete and colorful record of the native leaders who made the long journey to Washington to speak for their people. | |||
| Publication City: Philadelphia Medium: Hand-colored lithographs Dimensions: 14.5 x 20 inches (approximate page size) Date: VOL I: 1837, VOL ll: 1842, VOL lll: 1844 | |||
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 A Winnebago details |  Apauly Tustennuggee details |  Cherokee Chief, David Vann details |  Cherokee Chief, John Ross details |  Cherokee Chief, Major Ridge details |  Cherokee Chief, Spring Frog details |  Cherokee, John Ridge details |  Chippewa Chief, Jack-O-Pa details |  Chippewa Chief, No-Tin details |  Chippewa Chief, O-Hya-Wa-Mince-Kee details |  Chippewa Chief, On-G-Wae details |  Chippewa Chief, Pa-She-Nine details |  Chippewa Chief, Pee-Che-Kir details |  Chippewa, White Pigeon, Wa-Bish-Kee-Pe-Nas details |  Chippeway Chief, A-Na-Cam-E-Gish-Ca details |  Chippeway Chief, Ka-Ta-Wa-Be-Da details |  Chippeway Chief, Okee-Makee-Quid details |  Chippeway Chief, Shin-Ga-Ba-W-Ossin details |  Chippeway Chief, Wa-Em-Boesh-Kaa details |  Chippeway Chief, Wesh Cubb details |  Chippeway Squaw & Child details |  Chippeway Warrior, Meta Koosega details |  Chippeway Widow details |  Choctaw Warrior, Push-Ma-Ta-Ha details |  Creek Chief, Ledagie details |  Creek Chief, M'Intosh details |  Creek Chief, Opothle Yoholo details |  Creek Chief, Se-Loc-Ta details |  Creek Chief, Tustennuggee Emathla details |  Creek Interpreter, Paddy Carr details |  Creek Warrior, Me Na Wa details |  Delaware Chief, Lap-Pa-Win-Soe details |  Delaware Chief, Tish-Co-Han details |  Eagle Of Delight, Hayne Hudjihini details |  Flat Head Boy, Stum-Ma-Nu details |  Flying Pigeon, Rant-Che-Wai-Me details |  Fox Warrior, Kee-She-Waa details |  Half Chief, Husband to Eagle of Delight, Chon-Man-I-Case-Otto details |  Ioway Chief, Not-Chi-Mi-Ne details |  Ioway Chief, Wat-Che-Mon-Ne details |  Jtcho Tustinnuggee details |  Kansas Chief, Mon Chonsia details |  Mandan Chief, Sha-Ha-Ka details |  Menomeme Brave, Mar-Ko-Me-Te details |  Menominie Warrior, Amiskquew details |  Mistipee details |  Musquakee Brave, Tai-O-Mah details |  Musquakee Chief, Peah-Mus-Ka details |  Nah-Et-Luc Hopie details |  Oche Finceco details |  Ojibray Man, Caa-Tou-See details |  Ojibway Woman, Tshusick details |  Omahas Chief, Ong-Pa-Ton-Ga details |  Open Door, Els-Kwau-Ta-Waw details |  Osage Chief, Le Soldat Du Chene details |  Osage Woman, Mo-Hon-Go details |  Ottawa Chief, Ka-Na-Pi-Ma details |  Pah She Pah How details |  Pawnee Chief, Pes-Ke-Le-Cha-Co details |  Pocahontas details |  Pottawatomie Chief, Me-Te-A details |  Pottawatomie Chief, Wa-Baun-See details |  Saukie Chief, Wakechai details |  Seminole Chief, Chittee Yoholo details |  Seminole Chief, Julcee Mathla details |  Seminole Chief, Micanopy details |  Seminole Chief, Nea-Math-La details |  Seminole Chief, Yaha-Hajo details |  Seminole, Foke-Luste-Hajo details |  Seneca War Chief, Red Jacket details |  Seneca, Ch-Ki-On-Twog-Ky (Cornplant) details |  Shawanoe Chief, Kish-Kal-Wa details |  Shawanoe Chief, Qua-Ta-Wa-Pea details |  Shawanoes Principal Chief, Ca-Ta-He-Cas-Sa (Black Hoof) details |  Sioux Chief, Little Crow details |  Sioux Chief, Mon-Ka-Ush-Ka details |  Sioux Chief, Waa-Pa-Shaw details |  Sioux Grand Chief, Wa-Na-Ta details |  Six Nations Chief, Ahyouwaihgs details |  Six Nations Great Captain, Thayendanegea details |  Tah-Col-O-Quoit details |  Tens-Kwau-Ta-Waw or the Open Door details |  Uchee Warrior, Timpoochee Barnard details |  Waa-Top-E-Not details |  War Dance details |  White Nosed Fox, Kai-Pol-E-Quah details |  Winebago, Tshi-Zun-Hau-Kau details |  Winnebago Brave, A-Mis-Quam details |  Winnebago Chief, Naw-Kaw details |  Winnebago Chief, Wa-Kawn details |  Winnebago Chief, Wa-Kawn-Ha-Ka details | |
