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Mato-tope, Native American Mandan Indian Chief

Mato-tope holding a lance and wearing painted and quilled shirt. Mato-tope (1784, July 30, 1837) was the second chief of the Mandan tribe to be known as Four Bears, a name he earned after charging the Assiniboine tribe during battle with the strength of four bears. Around 1830 the trading post Fort Clark was built less than 600 feet south of Mitutanka. At that time, Four Bears was a brave warrior among his people, famous for killing a Cheyenne chief in hand-to-hand combat. Besides the Cheyenne, Four Bears fought the Sioux, the Arikara, and the Assiniboine and once he killed two Ojibway women. Voyage dans l'interieur de l'Amerique du Nord, execute pendant les annees 1832-34. Karl Bodmer (1809-1893) was a Swiss printmaker, lithographer, painter, illustrator and hunter. He accompanied the German explorer Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied on his Missouri River expedition.

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Title: Mato-tope, Native American Mandan Indian Chief

Caption: Mato-tope holding a lance and wearing painted and quilled shirt. Mato-tope (1784, July 30, 1837) was the second chief of the Mandan tribe to be known as Four Bears, a name he earned after charging the Assiniboine tribe during battle with the strength of four bears. Around 1830 the trading post Fort Clark was built less than 600 feet south of Mitutanka. At that time, Four Bears was a brave warrior among his people, famous for killing a Cheyenne chief in hand-to-hand combat. Besides the Cheyenne, Four Bears fought the Sioux, the Arikara, and the Assiniboine and once he killed two Ojibway women. Voyage dans l'interieur de l'Amerique du Nord, execute pendant les annees 1832-34. Karl Bodmer (1809-1893) was a Swiss printmaker, lithographer, painter, illustrator and hunter. He accompanied the German explorer Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied on his Missouri River expedition.

Personalities: BODMER • MAH-TO-TOH-PA

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Image size: 3178 × 4200 px | 38.2 MB

Print size: 26.9 × 35.6 cm | 1251.2 × 1653.5 in (300 dpi)

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