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Title: [War dance costumes of the inhabitants of California]
Creator: Choris, Ludwig (1795-1828), Russian, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [1816]
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: Color studies of two Indians (identified in pencil as Olompoli and Sactan) in war dance costumes (headdress, body paint, and costume). Several additional pencil sketches of dancing figures (one identified as Guymon).
Handwritten title (LC): Costumes de danse de guerre des habitans de la Californie du voisinage de la mission de Sn. Francisco. Date based on Otto von Kotzebue Expedition visit to California in 1816. Inscriptions in French.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: watercolor 27.5 x 23 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf0b69n9ws
BANC PIC 1963.002:1313 (recto)--FR
Subject: Clothing & dress
Expeditions & surveys
Indians of North America
Rites & ceremonies
Voyages to the Pacific

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