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Title: [Dancing Kaluschians of Sitka, Alaska]
Creator: Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (1773-), German, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1803 and 1807]
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: Six native dancers with tattooed faces; principal dancer wears elaborately decorated costume; five hold groups of eagle feathers; one leans on a stick; four persons (two with protruding lower lips) on ground watching dance; hut with fire in distance; mountains beyond. See also 1963.002:1036--ALB.
Supplied title. Handwritten (LC, in ink): Die Kaluschen in Sitcha bey einem Tanz; (LR, in ink): Dr. Langsdorff ad natur. del.; (UR, in ink): Tab. XIV; (on verso): Langsdorff... Ref. note: Langsdorff-German edition, Vol. II, Plate 7; text, p. 98; English edition, Vol. II., Plate 3; text, p. 114. Inscriptions in German.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: wash 22.2 x 27.4 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf509nb5kj
BANC PIC 1963.002:1020--ffALB
Subject: Alaska
Clothing & dress
Discovery & exploration
Expeditions & surveys
Indians of North America
Manners & customs
Northwest, Pacific
Voyages to the Pacific
Women

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