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Title: [Yurok? Indian woman with basket on her head]
Creator: O'Grady, William H. (active ca. 1854-ca. 1857), American?, artist (attributed to)
Date Created and/or Issued: [1851]
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: Woman wearing skirt, cape, decorated skull cap, and jewelry (bracelets, earrings and necklace) holds basket on her head. Face painted or tattooed.
Supplied title. Attribution and date based on comparison to 1963.002:296--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 tinted paper: ink, wash, and white chalk 17.2 x 12.6 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf629010dn
BANC PIC 1963.002:0297--B
Subject: Clothing & dress
Indians of North America
Women

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