Saturday, April 13, 2019

George Catlin (1796 –1872) Four Sepibo Indians

George Catlin (1796 –1872) Four Sepibo Indians. Catlin wrote A fine man said to be the chief, his ears elongated and ornamented with plumes and skins of  peroquets; a Sepibo woman, wife of the chief; a famous warrior holding his little son.  A small tribe, on the bank of the Yucayali, below the Chetibos: Canoe Indians, mostly destroyed by small-pox. 1853.