A color print of three White men crouched behind a log pointing rifles at three Indigenous men coming into their camp with tomahawks and knives raised.

American Frontier Life--"The Hunter's Strategem".

Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (1819-1905)

Date

1862
Object Type

Prints
Medium

Toned lithograph with applied watercolor
Contributors

Printed by Currier & Ives

Published by Currier & Ives
Dimensions

Sheet: 21 7/8 x 30 in.
Image: 18 3/4 x 27 5/16 in.
Inscriptions

Recto:
l.l.: PAINTED BY A.F. TAIT.
l.c.: Entered according to act of Congress AD. 1862 by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for Southern District of New York. \ AMERICAN FRONTIER LIFE. \ The Hunter's Stratagem \ NEW YORK, PUBLISHED BY CURRIER & IVES, 152 NASSAU ST.
l.r.: LITH. BY CURRIER & IVES, N.Y.
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Accession Number

1987.19
Copyright

Public domain

Location: Off view

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