"Indian of the Nation of the Shawanoes"

<p>This engraving, entitled “Indian of the Nation of the Shawanoes,” appeared in an 1826 edition of the book <em>A Journey in North America…</em> by Georges Henri Victor Collot. The engraving, probably by Jean Baptiste Pierre Tardieu, was based off a sketch by Collot himself, drawn during his 1796 cartographical journey through the Ohio and Mississippi valley. Collot intended the sketch to be representative of what an average member of the Shawnee looked like, as the purpose of his travels was to create a resource that would be of political use to the French government, at that time interested in reviving imperial interests in North America.</p>