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Title: [Inhabitants of California and their respective dresses]
Creator: Choris, Ludwig (1795-1828), Russian, artist (attributed to)
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: Upper: two male Indians at shoreline, one carrying fish and harpoon, the other paddling raft of bound logs. Lower: Two female Indians standing in landscape, one wearing feather cape and carrying bow and arrows; the other, seen from back, wearing deerskin cape.
Printed title (LC): The inhabitants of California in their respective dresses. Vol. I, p. 234.. Printed (below upper image): An Indian man returned from fishing. An Indian fishing on his bark log.; (below lower image): An Indian woman of distinction covered with the skin of a bird in its feathers. An Indian woman in the ordinary deer skin dress. Ref. note: Pittoresque Autour du Monde (Paris, 1822).
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: engraving, hand colored 18.7 x 23.5 cm., image on sheet 25.5 x 41.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2k40083f
BANC PIC 1963.002:0369--B
Subject: Arms & armaments
California, Northern
Clothing & dress
Indians of North America

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