Image / Captain Jack's Cave in the lava bed, Lake Tule, Tulare County, California

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Title: Captain Jack's Cave in the lava bed, Lake Tule, Tulare County, California
Creator: Simpson, William (1823-1899), British, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 1873
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: Man entering rocky cave interior; fire pit, bedding, and utensils in center (Captain Jack was Modoc Indian Chief involved in Modoc war who was hanged in 1873 at Fort Klamath).
Handwritten title (LL): Captain Jack's Cave in the lava bed, Lake Tule, California, April 1873, W[illia]m Simpson.
Type: image
Format: Painting on paper mounted on board: watercolor and pencil 28 x 44.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4f59p2s6
BANC PIC 1963.002:0278--B
Subject: Camping
Indians of North America

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