Amerindian Gallery

Hannah Duston escapes from capture by Native Americans

Hannah Duston and two other captives escaping from Abenaki Indians on the Merrimac River, New Hampshire, 1697.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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US Army survivors of Custers Last Stand - horse and scout, Curley

Horse "Comanche" and Custer's scout Curley, the only US Army survivors of the Battle of Little Bighorn, 1876.
Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a photograph

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Native American trappers carrying furs on snowshoes in a forest of the Pacific Northwest
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Frederic Reminigton illustration

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