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Title: [Incident on the Chagres River, Panama]
Creator: Nahl, Charles Christian (1818-1878), German, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 1867
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: Flat boat with small group of passengers being poled up river over shallow rapids by native polers; one pole man goes overboard; old boat wreakage wedged under flotsam-laden outcropping in river. Tropical vegetation frames scene; two cows on shore, far left.
Supplied title. Signature and date: (LL): Charles Nahl, 1867.
Type: image
Format: Painting on canvas: oil 68.2 x 94.4 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf658010cs
BANC PIC 1963.002:1361--FR
Subject: Animals
Cattle
Central America
Nature
Panama
Rivers
Vessels
Voyages to the Pacific

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