"Thomas Loraine McKenney was Superintendent of Indian Trade under Presidents Madison, Monroe, Adams, and Jackson, with a keen interest in the customs and beliefs of the Indians he came to know so well. James Hall was a frontier lawyer, judge, newspaper editor, and author who helped McKenney put together the volume of portfolios. Together they turned the portraits into a coherent representation of Indian life, lore, and custom.

All types of Indians are included in this significant work - from the most noble warriors and imposing statesmen to the most downtrodden tribesmen and exploited chiefs. The great and colorful cast of characters, painted by Charles Bird King and other important American artists, includes Black Hawk, who gave his name to a war; Joseph Bryant, the great Mohawk war captain who could hurl a tomahawk or translate the Bible into the Mohawk language with equal facility; Pocahontas, the famous daughter of Powhatan who married an Englishman and became the first Indian convert to Christianity in Virginia; Katawabeda, the Chippewa chief who refused to fight in any white man's war - one of the first Indian advocates of peace; Tshusick, a shrewd Indian confidence woman who captured Washington; and Petalesharo, the handsome Pawnee chief who saved a young Comanche girl from human sacrifice and became a national celebrity."

The images below represent only a few of the McKenney & Hall prints we have in our collection. For a more complete list of our inventory, please click the link below. Please call for availability.

McKENNEY & HALL INVENTORY