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Title: [Dance of Indians at Mission in San Jose, New California]
Creator: Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlief (1769-1857), German, artist (attributed to) 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 Indians with elaborately painted and tattooed bodies, wearing costumes and headdresses, dance in clearing near river. Possibly the earliest known view of Mission Indians in native costumes at Mission San Jose, California.
Supplied title. Handwritten title (LC): Ein Tanz der Indianer in der Mission in St. Jose in Neu-Californien. Signature (LR): Dessiné par G. de Langsdorff. Handwritten (UR): XIII. Attribution to Tilesius von Tilenau based on Van Nostrand's California Pictorial. Ref. note: Langsdorff--German ed., Vol. II, Plate 10; text, p. 43; English edition, Vol. II, Plate 2; text, p. 48. Inscriptions in German.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: ink, wash, and gouache 22.4 x 28.2 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8j49p5fc
BANC PIC 1963.002:1023--FR
Subject: California, Northern
Clothing & dress
Discovery & exploration
Expeditions & surveys
Indians of North America
Manners & customs
Missions
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
Voyages to the Pacific

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