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[Indian gravesites and tombs of Trinidad Indian Manchuck and Largo, son of the Morwhama]

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Title: [Indian gravesites and tombs of Trinidad Indian Manchuck and Largo, son of the Morwhama]
Creator: [Unknown]
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1850]
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: Gravesites composed of canoe oars, baskets, and shell surrounded by nettles. Largo was shot by Eurooks (Yuroks) or Fork Indians November 1850.
Supplied title. Handwritten (UC): Grave of a Trinidad Indian /Manchuck; (MC): Tomb of Largo, son of Morwhama, composed of canoe oars and eagles' feathers and shells; handwritten text (LC) describing Largo's death. 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 paper: ink, watercolor, and pencil 28 x 22 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8v19p5bs
BANC PIC 1963.002:0286--B
Subject: California, Northern
Funerary facilities
Indians of North America

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