**First Time At Auction**

After Charles Bird King (American, 1785-1862). "Not-Chi-Mi-Ne, An Ioway Chief" - hand-colored lithograph, ca. 19th century, A bust-length portrait of Not-Chi-Mi-Ne, facing right and highly decorated with earrings and a portrait medallion around his neck, originally printed in Thomas McKenney & James Hall "History of the Indian Tribes of North America." Thomas McKenney greatly admired the indigenous peoples of the Americas and worked to preserve their culture and legacy via a gallery of paintings commissioned by numerous artists. Sadly, those original paintings were destroyed by a fire. Given this, lithographs rendered after those paintings, like this example, are the only surviving records of those compositions. Size of print (what is visible in framing): 8.25" L x 5.625" W (21 cm x 14.3 cm) Size of frame: 16.875" L x 14.25" W (42.9 cm x 36.2 cm)

Size of sheet difficult to discern since partially covered by matte, but the print may be the 7" x 10.75" version that appeared in the 1870 octavo edition of McKenney & Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America".

Provenance: ex Stein collection, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA, acquired prior to 2010

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#164478

Lithograph has not been examined outside the frame. Image appears to be vivid with slight toning to the sheet. Matte may be covering additional text below the image. Frame is excellent and quite attractive. Wired for suspension and ready to display.