'Nature's Most Beautiful Models': George Catlin's Choctaw Ball-Play Paintings and the Politics of Indian Removal
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frank H. Goodyear
The International Journal of the History of Sport, vol. 23, no. 2, March 2006, pp. 138-153
Description
Comments on a series of ball-play paintings that provide an opportunity to investigate Euro-American perceptions of Native American ball-play or lacrosse in the early nineteenth century.