Word: bodmer
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...Mandan were among the tribes who lived in high style before the European invaders manifested their destiny. The Indians' chief sources of wealth were the bison and the horse. In 1883 the German explorer and naturalist Prince Maximilian of Wied and his Swiss-born companion, Artist Karl Bodmer, traveled among the tribes. The result was Maximilian's diaries, packed with details of Indian life and Bodmer's stunning watercolors. It was a happy marriage of ethnology and art, as the reader is now able to see in this finely produced book...
Died. Martin Bodmer, 71, Swiss banker and collector of rare books and manuscripts; of peritonitis; in Geneva, Switzerland. Bodmer accumulated more than 100,000 items in his "Bibliotheca Bodmeriana," including one of three copies of the Gutenberg Bible in private collection. His greatest coup was his 1952 acquisition of 73 folios and quartos of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. The price was more than...