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Me-na-wa, a Creek Indian.

image courtesy of Wellcome Library, London | CC BY 4.0

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Date

1837

Artist

Charles Bird King (1785-1862)

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Wellcome Library

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https://wellcomecollection.org/works/tu5t3zs8

Description

Coloured lithograph by J.T. Bowen after C.B. King, 1837.
"... This chief commanded the party that killed Gen. McIntosh, and was one of the few that saved themselves from the defeat at the Horse-shoe, by swimming the river, after being badly wounded in the head." -- cited on University of Cincinnati Libraries webpage
Inscription: Me-na-wa, a Creek warrior. Printed and coloured at I.T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment No. 94 Walnut St. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1837, by E.C. Biddle, in the Clerks office of the District Court of the eastern district of Penn.a.
Additional makers: McKenney, Thomas Loraine, 1785-1859. ; Bowen, John T. (approximately 1801-1856?)

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CC BY 4.0

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image courtesy of Wellcome Library, London

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Alabama, USA

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