Included in this lot we have "George Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio" prints, Penn Prints, New York. The portfolio consists of six (6) magnificent colored plates titled: Buffalo Hunt, Catching the Wild Horse, Snowshoe Dance, Indian Buffalo Hunt, Ball Play Dance, Game of the Arrow. The prints show various western scenes primarily of Native Americans. The colored prints come with a paper folio reading " George Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio Six Magnificent color plates of the Old West by the dean of American Frontier painters". George Catlin (1796-1872) was an American adventurer, lawyer, painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West. Traveling to the American West five times during the 1830s, Catlin wrote about and painted portraits that depicted the life of the Plains Indians. From 1832 to 1837, Catlin spent summers (and one winter) traveling with and documenting the life of Native Americans from the Sioux (Lakota), Blackfeet, Crow, Mandan and other tribes. With the advent of railroads, Catlin saw that American culture was moving from the East Coast toward the West and knew that the Native Americans way of life likely would drastically change as development reached them. He would sketch while out with the tribes and then return to his studio in the winter to add color. The prints are in very nice condition, very suitable for framing. Very slight marring along borders but none impede images. Slight age tanning observed on prints, original folio exhibits slight age tanning and foxing, some staining noted on rear cover. Prints measure 18"L x 14"W approximately.*