" Shin-Ga-Ba-W'ossin, Shing-gaa-ba-W'Osin, Figured Stone or Image Stone - (Chippewa) Chippeway Chief "

Outstanding hand colored Native American Portrait from the McKenney and Hall First Folio Edition. 3rd Issue - Rice and Clark- Bowen Issue (Before Letters?) Vol 1 pgs 29-30. Lewis first painted Shingaba at Fon du Lac Council in 1826. King later copied the Lewis portrait in Washington. The lithographic image of King's portrait was transfered to stone by Henry Inman and his partner Cephas Grier Childs in 1832. This plate was one of the first executed by Inman and one of the first to have a copyright filed for it by Key & Biddle in 1833. The execution of these early plates and subsequent filing of copyright occured as a result of Mckenney learning that Lewis had announced publication of his Aboriginal Portfolio in conjunction with the firm Lehman & Duval. A minor publishing war ensued with Mckenney in competition with Lewis and Inman & Childs in competition with Lehman & Duval; bad blood seemed to revolve around Peter Duval who was only two years earlier an apprentice of Inman and Childs before having been stolen over to Lehman's outfit which took the new name of Lehman & Duval. Ironically, after the Lewis project collapsed Lehman & Duval would later produce additional lithographs for Mckenney's project. James Otto Lewis also made a portrait at the treaty of Fond du Lac (on Lake Superior) 1826. References: Rhees, #2.