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Title: [Young bear caught by Indian near New Almaden, California]
Creator: Wikersheim, Fritz (active ca. 1847-1851), French, artist
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
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Young bear (cub) chained to base of tree; he has dug hole around roots of tree.
Supplied title. Handwritten (LR, within image): N.A. 5 [Mars] '51; (LC): Californie -- jeune ours lacé par un indien près de la nueva almaden. Inscriptions in French.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: watercolor and pencil 13.8 x 21.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8w1011p4
BANC PIC 1963.002:1304:23--ALB
Subject: Animals
Bears
California, Northern

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