Antique Print of Tokacou 'Yankton Sioux Warrior' by McKenney, 1836
€ 2 400
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1836
Technique
Engraved
Sheet size
51.5 × 35.5 cm (20.3 × 14.0 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-12590
What the condition grades mean
Excellent
Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good
Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good
Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair
Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
Condition
General age-related toning, blank verso. Original text page included. Please review the images for further condition details.
About this sheet
To-Ka-Con, a Yankton Sioux chief, in a large hand-colored lithograph from Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America, published in 1836. The plate is lettered "To-Ka-Con a Sioux Chief" with the publisher's imprint and the copyright notice beneath.
The portrait is a bust: a man in three-quarter view wearing a feathered headdress with dark and red-tipped feathers, beaded earrings and a double necklace of blue and white beads. His face is painted red, and a deerskin shirt with broad beaded bands on the sleeves and a green-fringed edge covers his shoulders. He holds a saber with a brass hilt across his chest. The color is applied by hand over the lithographed image and the sheet has wide margins.
The portrait derives from the Indian Gallery of paintings assembled by the Superintendent of Indian Trade, and the History of the Indian Tribes of North America became the best-known portfolio of portraits of leading Native American figures of the period.
