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Hunting Indians in a Taxi-Cab

Chapter 2: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By Kate Sanborn
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A collection of witty personal essays recounting the author's hobby of rescuing and displaying old wooden tobacco-sign Indians and other popular curiosities. She narrates urban and country hunts, bargaining, restoration, and garden placement, interspersed with reflections on art, domestic taste, and memory. Short anecdotes and social sketches—from conversations with sign-painters to encounters at country estates and a peculiar healing session—combine light satire and affectionate observation of changing material culture.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

  PAGE
Tacomus Frontispiece
My nameless, footless Squaw 15
A young and pretty mother 21
A Highland Chieftain 21
A Brave Gazing 21
On the Watch 21
The Goddess of Liberty and three other attractive Ladies 25
Squaw with Papoose and other charmers 29
Saint Tammany of the Delaware Tribe 33
“We are tending strictly to business” 33
A Representative of the National Game 39
Jockey with cigar box 39
Hunter 39
Policeman 39
Sothern as “Dundreary”—the others you may name as you please 43
Punch with Impressive Nose 47
Another Punch, less fortunate 47
Punchinello and Nondescript 47
Puck 47
Jim Crow, made 87 years ago 51
Please name him? 51
Four of a Kind 55
Sagamore, Sachem or Pow-wow 59
All High Rollers 63
Place aux Dames 65
A Poseur 75
Lady Enjoying the Weed 75
A Jolly Party 75
“And Last of All an Admiral Came” 75
HUNTING INDIANS IN A TAXI-CAB
HUNTING INDIANS IN A TAXI-CAB