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A Dakota-language religious reader compiled by missionary Stephen Return Riggs and printed in Chicago in 1877, using the Santee dialect for Dakota readers. Its two dark, warm-toned wood-engraved scenes show a man in a rough cloak standing in shadowy woods, and a seated woman with a standing child and a bearded older man leaning over a wooden table with a cup, set in a dim interior with plain, figure-focused composition a designer might borrow for moody, low-key storytelling.
