One of a series of 12 watercolor scenes depicting the route of Jim Hazen Hyde's four horse coach "Liberty" between New York and its terminus at Lakewood, New Jersey. The coach ran three times a week from the Holland house, at Fifth Avenue and 30th Street, NYC and the Hotel Laurel-In-The-Pines, Lakewood, a distance of 79 miles taking approximately 9 hours and utilizing up to eleven teams of horses.

One of a series of 12 watercolor scenes depicting the route of Jim Hazen Hyde's four horse coach "Liberty" between New York and its terminus at Lakewood, New Jersey. The coach ran three times a week from the Holland house, at Fifth Avenue and 30th Street, NYC and the Hotel Laurel-In-The-Pines, Lakewood, a distance of 79 miles taking approximately 9 hours and utilizing up to eleven teams of horses.

One of a series of 12 watercolor scenes depicting the route of Jim Hazen Hyde's four horse coach "Liberty" between New York and its terminus at Lakewood, New Jersey. The coach ran three times a week from the Holland house, at Fifth Avenue and 30th Street, NYC and the Hotel Laurel-In-The-Pines, Lakewood, a distance of 79 miles taking approximately 9 hours and utilizing up to eleven teams of horses.

Silhouette: Life-size (?) right-facing profile of male subject; ink wash within outline in graphite on paper with handwritten description below.

Ethnography. Studies of Native Americans: a large group of merry, smiling men with 'Mohawk-style' hair and extensive ornamented pierced ear modifications with jewelry dance around the tribe's 'berdash' or berdache, a male who takes the role, appearance and dress of a female and were viewed by most native tribes as having a sacred role. Native American spiritual philosophy not only accepts a 'third gender' status, but almost encourages it. With a few exceptions, the berdache were found to exist in almost every North American tribe, especially in the midwest, great plains and the southwest. Berdache males often became healers, surgeons, counselors, therapists, high religious priests, shamans, witch doctors, medicine men, and adoptive parents to tribal orphans. They could also become one of the multiple wives of Indian braves and, in rare cases, of females warriors. They were viewed as having a special 'blessed' status and were thought to be the middle gender, frequently seen as mystic and psychic prophets or visionaries.

Ethnography. Studies of Native Americans: men with 'Mohawk-style' hair and extensive ornamented pierced ear modifications dance with pipes, bows, axes and scalps on poles, around the wigwam of a slain comrade while his wife cries and mourns next to a pole displaying a pelt 'medicine' bag sacred to the deceased; they present the warrior's widow with gifts and promise her the protection and support of the tribe for the duration of her life.

Ethnography. Studies of Native Americans: a group of sixteen men with 'mohawk-style' shaved heads, body paint and ornately decorated pierced ear modifications dance carrying spears, pipes and tomahawks while other drum and shake bell-like instruments; the Society of Slaves was a Saukie institution composed of young men from the best families who volunteered to serve as slaves to the chief for a certain period of time, possibly receiving special status from the service

Ethnography. Studies of Native Americans: Catlin and his two guides with guns approach a herd of buffalo among small hillocks in a valley

Ethnography. Studies of Native Americans: three buffalo wounded by arrows, one fallen, are prusued by three Sioux hunters; one hunter leaps from horseback onto a buffalo while another is thrown from a fallen horse

Animal figures. Studies of Native Americans: Catlin's portrait of wild horses leaping, nipping, racing and fighting on the prairie