Print shows a Native American man smoking a pipe and sitting in the grass with a white man who is holding out a bottle; another white man stands nearby with two horses, one of which has a dead deer or elk on its back; within a single line border; caption letters and imprint below image
Alternative Title:
Indian in doubt and Seductive offer
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Another state, black and white with mirrored reversal of left and right, issued in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (New York), volume 33, issue 834, Sept. 23, 1871, has title: Trading on the plains--a seductive offer--the Indian in doubt.
Wearing a traditional Franciscan habit, the friar Antonio Margil (who was venerated in 1836) holds a crucifix in his left hand, to which he points with his right, as he preaches to a group of exotically dressed Native Americans in an outdoor setting
Alternative Title:
Vera effigies venerabilis servi dei patris Antonii Margil
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Cataloger unable to make precise identification of artist; possibly Francesco Cecchi?
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Margil de Jesús, Antonio, 1657-1726
Subject (Topic):
Missionaries, Indians of North America, and Missions
Print depicts a long train of an ox-drawn wagons stretching in an "s" curve from the low mountains in the background through the flat middle-ground to the foreground where three scouts are on horseback in the left foreground and all are watched by a small indigenous family group of three children and three adults in the right foreground
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc10 880wa: Mounted on board 70 x 101 cm. Edges of print covered by mat. and Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
H.S. Crocker & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Wagon trains, Indians of North America, and Frontier and pioneer life
