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Image Title: Ball-Play, 1844

Creator: Catlin, George, 1796-1872, artist

Date: 1844

Summary: Native men and boys playing a game similar to lacrosse, near Fort Gibson, Oklahoma.

Notes: Illus. in: North American Indian portfolio ; hunting scenes and amusements of the Rocky Mountains and prairies of America / from drawings and notes of the author made during eight years travel amongst forty-eight of the wildest and most remote tribes of savages of North America. London : [1844].|Published in: Many nations: A resource guide for the study of Indian and Alaska native peoples of the United States / edited by Patrick Frazier and the Publishing Office. Washington : , 1996, p. 64.

Subjects: Choctaw Indians--Sports--1830-1850
Indians of North America--Sports--Oklahoma--1830-1850
Lacrosse--Oklahoma--1830-1850

Original Media: Lithograph

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