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Title
[Indian campfire]
Creator
Wimar, Carl (1828-1862), German, artist
Date Created and/or Issued
[1852]
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
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Description
Three Indians seated around campfire wrapped in blankets, two hold rifles. Romantic, moonlit landscape with dense, mossy vegetation.
Signature and date (LL): Carl Wimar, [Dec. 1852].
Type
image
Format
Painting on canvas: oil 62.5 x 51.7 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf9t1nc0tp
BANC PIC 1963.002:1381--FR
Subject
Camping
Indians of North America

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