Historical and statistical information respecting the history, condition, and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States : collected and prepared under the direction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs per act of Congress of March 3rd, 1847
Schoolcraft's 1851 government-commissioned survey of the Indian tribes of the United States, published in Philadelphia by Lippincott, Grambo & Company and drawn from Bureau of Indian Affairs records. The four plates shown are rotated engravings: a lakeshore landscape with trees, a plan of a lake-bordered peninsula, a view of a rocky outcrop with a carved boulder, and a cranial profile study. A designer could take their sober, hand-engraved tonal style and the precise scientific diagram treatment.
