xvi, [19]-298. 12 chromolithograph plates (including title, presentation, and list of illustration pages). 9x6, original full black morocco stamped in gilt and blind, all edges gilt. First Edition.

Chromolithographs by P.S. Duval, 8 of them after drawings by Seth Eastman. Of the 40 verse and prose pieces making up the text 18 are by Mary Eastman. The entire volume on themes in word and picture of American Indian life. As an army officer, Seth Eastman was stationed in various posts through the West where he and his wife Mary observed and recorded their impressions of American Indians. Scarce.