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Title
Hutchings' California scenes/The California Indians
Creator
Nahl, Charles Christian (1818-1878), German, artist Anthony & Baker (active 1850s), engraver Hutchings, J. M. (James Mason) (1820-1902), publisher Excelsior Print. (active ca. 1854), printer
Date Created and/or Issued
c1854
Publication Information
Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection
Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information
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Description
Includes eight views: Indian Fandango/dance; gathering acorns; gathering seeds; mode of traveling; burning their dead; catching grasshoppers; grinding acorns and cooking food. Most images show Indian women at work.
Printed title (UL): Hutching's California scenes; (UR): The California Indians. Printed (LC and LR images): C. Nahl, del.; (all images): Anthony & Baker, sc.; (LR):Excelsior print. Printed captions.
Type
image
Format
Print on tinted paper: wood engraving 28.6 x 22.7 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf158007f6
BANC PIC 1963.002:0053 (variant 2)--A
Subject
Indians of North America
Manners & customs
Rites & ceremonies
Women

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