Funeral Scaffold
- Image
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- Created Date
- 1836/1841?
- Description
Tableau 11 in atlas: Illustrations to Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels in the interior of North America. Depiction of a Sioux funeral ceremony next to the funeral scaffold of a Sioux Chief. Men, women and children are gathered in a circle near the scaffold, in front of their dwellings. In 1836 Maximilian commissioned Bodmer to create illustrations to accompany the text of his atlas documenting their travels. These illustrations include 81 p...
- Creator
Bodmer, Karl, 1809-1893
- Contributing Institution
- Newberry Library
- Location
- North America
- Type
- image
- Format
- AquatintsWorks of art
- Language
- English, French, German
- Rights
- The Newberry makes its collections available for any lawful purpose, commercial or non-commercial, without licensing or permission fees to the library, subject to the following terms and conditions: https://www.newberry.org/rights-and-reproductions
- Chicago citation style
- Bodmer, Karl, 1809-1893. Funeral Scaffold. 1836/1841?. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/nby_eeayer/id/2012. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Bodmer, Karl, 1809-1893, (1836/1841?) Funeral Scaffold. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/nby_eeayer/id/2012
- MLA citation style
- Bodmer, Karl, 1809-1893. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/nby_eeayer/id/2012>.