Model first reader. Wayawa tokaheya. Prepared in English-Dakota
An 1873 Chicago primer, the Model First Reader prepared by Stephen Return Riggs in English and Dakota, meant for teaching Dakota-speaking learners to read. The pictures are small hand-coloured wood engravings tied to word lessons, showing a tree and ivy, a boy with rabbits, a girl at a fence beside a cabin, and a bare-topped tree in pen and ink, with simple clear compositions a designer could borrow for vignette-style scenes.
