Hidatsa tribal appearance and customs are documented…
1834 CE
Hidatsa tribal appearance and customs are documented by the visits of two artists of the American west.
The allied tribes are first visited by American George Catlin, who remains with them several months in 1832.
He is followed by Karl Bodmer, a Swiss painter accompanying German explorer Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied on a Missouri River expedition from 1832 to 1834.
Catlin and Bodmer's works record the Hidatsa and Mandan societies, where are rapidly changing under pressure from encroaching settlers, infectious disease, and government restraints.
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