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Sequoyah   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Published by: F W Greenough

Printed by: L T Bowen
Title
Sequoyah
Description
English: Print, illustration to Thomas L. McKenny and James Hall '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" Philadelphia 1838 (vol.1 page 63 ); portrait of Sequoyah (SE-QUO-YAH) also known as George Guess, inventor of the Cherokee alphabet. He wears head-dress, several layers of garment and medal hanging on a ribbon around his neck; smoking a long thin pipe and holding a tablet with letters of the alphabet.
Lithograph, hand-coloured
Depicted people Authorised or patronised by: McKenney
Date 1838
date QS:P571,+1838-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 50 centimetres
Width: 35 centimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Accession number
Am2006,Prt.63
Notes This print is in a book, volume one of three volumes; "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" by Thomas L. M'Kenney and James Hall. Vol.1 page 63 Philadelphia 1838. Published in three volumes.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Am2006-Prt-63
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