Keokuk, Chief of the Sac and Fox (Meskwaki) people and his son. Chief Keokuk or Kee-o-kuk, Watchful Fox or Running Fox, with son, Musewont, Long-Haired Fox. Chef des Renards (Amerique). Wearing medallions of the President of America. Copied from The Indian Tribes of North America by Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall, 1836. Handcoloured woodcut by Pannemaker copied from a portrait by Charles Bird King in Auguste Wahlen's Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde, (Manners, Customs and Costumes of all the People of the World) Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1845. Wahlen


Keokuk, Chief of the Sac and Fox (Meskwaki) people and his son. Chief Keokuk or Kee-o-kuk, Watchful Fox or Running Fox, with son, Musewont, Long-Haired Fox. Chef des Renards (Amerique). Wearing medallions of the President of America. Copied from The Indian Tribes of North America by Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall, 1836. Handcoloured woodcut by Pannemaker copied from a portrait by Charles Bird King in Auguste Wahlen's Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde, (Manners, Customs and Costumes of all the People of the World) Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1845. Wahlen was the pseudonym of Jean-Francois-Nicolas Loumyer (1801-1875), a writer and archivist with the Heraldic Department of Belgium.


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