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Title: [Bison hunt]
Creator: Adam, Victor (1801-1866), French, artist Dusacq & Cie, French, publisher Becquet, French, printer
Date Created and/or Issued: [18--]
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: Vaqueros on horseback and Indians hunting buffalo; fallen rider and horse on ground trampled by buffalo being pursued by dogs; Indians wearing body paint, feather headdresses, jewelry, and skins carry various weapons (tomahawk, sword, and rifle).
Printed title (LC): La chasse au bison/Amérique. Printed (LL, in original): V. Adam. Printed (LL): Dusacq & C[ompagn]ie. édit. Boulevt. Poissonnière, 14, Paris; (LC): Imp. Becquet, Paris; (LR): Composé et lith par V. Adam. Inscriptions in French.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, hand colored 59 x 74.4 cm., dome top
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf7m3nb77w
BANC PIC 1963.002:0739--D
Subject: Animals
Arms & armaments
Bison
Clothing & dress
Cowboys
Horses
Hunting
Indians of North America

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