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45. Selected image: page 124. Source: "The North American Indians." [Boston] Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion 3.8 (August 21, 1852): 124. Curious triptych of images with explanatory text: two grim, one -- on Pocahontas -- positive. A picture of an Indian encampment sees them as "the hunters of our era," "fast disapearing" and "dying off." An image of a scalp dance calls up "one of the diabolical orgies of savage life, and a frantic scene of savage revels." Then an image of the rescue -- with nothing in the text to relate it to the other two images, as one might expect.
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