Faces from the Interior: The North American Portraits of Karl Bodmer Toby Jurovics, editor, Margre H. Durham Center for Western Studies, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 2121.
Karl Bodmer traveled with Prince Maximilian up the Missouri river in 1832-34. Maximilian was the energy behind the trip, while Bodmer provided the scientific view and the paintings of local fauna and Native Americans. The trip covered paintings from many different tribal groups: Sauk, Meswaki, Omaha, Ponca, Yankton Sioux, Yanktonai Sioux, Lakota Sioux, Arikara, Mandan, Hidatsa, Assiniboine, Gros Ventre, Piegan Blackfoot, Siksika Blackfoot, Kainai Blackfoot, Shoshone, Cree. This study of art includes not only portraits of native Amerians, although it has plenty of these. It also has flora, animals, and lodges and dwellings as well as landscape drawings. Most of the artwork is housed at the Joslyn museum. There is a previous publication, shortly after the expedition. However this book has a modern reflection of these earlier works. Most of the paintings were water colors with graphite on paper. There are only two paintings of Omaha, a man and a boy, but other tribes are better represented.
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