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Catlin the Celebrated Indian Traveller and Artist, Firing his Colt's Repeating Rifle before a Tribe of Carib Indians in South America

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Lithograph
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection The Elisha Whittelsey Fund 1960
Title: Catlin the Celebrated Indian Traveller and Artist, Firing his Colt's Repeating Rifle before a Tribe of Carib Indians in South America
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Lithograph.

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