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Title
[Yurok? Indians: men, women and children, Humboldt County, California?]
Creator
[Unknown]
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 1850]
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
Indian group near wooden plank house. Male stands holding bow and quiver of arrows, wearing skirt with decorated belt, headdress and shoes. Naked figure at right holds spear, child leans on his right hip; two children wrestle at far right. Group of women in background involved in various activities. Women wear facial tattoos and decorated basket skull caps.
Supplied title. For preparatory drawing see 1963.002:294--B. The group of drawings 1963.002:0283 - 1963.002:0301 appear to be related. Some share stylistic, physical, and topical characteristics and may have came from the same source. For more information see Inventory Sheets.
Type
image
Format
Drawing on paper: watercolor 27.9 x 21.7 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf209nb47z
BANC PIC 1963.002:0295--B
Subject
California, Northern
Children
Clothing & dress
Indians of North America
Manners & customs
Women

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