Bodmer rediscovered

A Dakota woman and an Assiniboin child

Women's garments, Dakota © Linden-Museum, Stuttgart

Abdih-Hiddisch, chief of the Minatarre

Estuary of the Fox River (Indiana)

Herds of bison and moose along the upper banks of the Missouri

Hunting bison

Scalp dance of the Minatarre

View of the Rocky Mountains

Pioch-Kiäiu, from the Piegan Blackfeet tribe, watercolour on papier © Newberry Library

A Swiss artist's view of 19th century Native Americans.

This content was published on March 21, 2009 - 17:15

The North America Native Museum in Zurich is exhibiting the 81 engravings made by Karl Bodmer during a scientific trip to the American west in 1832 to 1834. His pictures helped shape the image of indigenous Americans in Europe.

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