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Title: [Portrait heads of Indians of California]
Creator: Choris, Ludwig (1795-1828), Russian, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [1822]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
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Description: Five portraits of California Indians (en face, 3/4, and in profile) wearing native clothes; two types decorated with tattoos.
Printed title (LC): Habitants de Californie. Printed (LR): des[sin]é et lith[]e L. Choris. Plate number VI (UR). Numbers 1-5 identify each figure. Lithographs based on sketches made during 1816 visit to California were published in L. Choris' Voyage Pittoresque Autour du Monde (Paris: Firmin Didot, 1822). Inscriptions in French.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, hand colored 26 x 41.3 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf0779p0bz
BANC PIC 1963.002:0365--B
Subject: California, Northern
Clothing & dress
Discovery & exploration
Indians of North America
Voyages to the Pacific

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