84 pp. Illustrated with 26 steel-engraved plates from drawings by Seth Eastman, plus steel-engraved added title. 12x9, original gilt-decorated blue cloth, all edges gilt. First Edition.

Excellent series of detailed engravings after drawings by Seth Eastman, who was stationed, along with his wife Mary, at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, from 1841 through 1848. These depict such revealing aspects of Native American life as transportation of wounded, the medicine dance of the Winnebagoes, spearing fish from a canoe, an Indian woman dressing a buffalo skin, etc. Wagner-Camp cautions that the work "should not be confused with Mrs. Eastman's later work, published in 1854 as Chicora, and again as American Annual... Mrs. Eastman's Portfolio consists of twenty-six engravings from Captain Eastman's paintings of Indian life, each with a guard sheet and a short explanatory essay of two or three pages." Field 477n; Howes E17; Wagner-Camp 222c.