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Title: [Dance of native Californians at San Francisco de Assis Mission, 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
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Group of Indians holding spears and wearing native dress dance in front of large gathering in yard before Mission Dolores; church façade and other buildings in background.
Handwritten title (LC, on mount): Danse des Californiens. Date based on Otto von Kotzebue Expedition visit to California in 1816. Inscriptions in French.
Type: image
Format: Painting on paper: watercolor and pencil 17.7 x 29.4 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf1w1007d8
BANC PIC 1963.002:1312--FR
Subject: Buildings
California, Northern
Churches
Expeditions & surveys
Indians of North America
Missions
San Francisco (Calif.)
Voyages to the Pacific

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