Title:
[Dancing Kaluschians of Sitka, Alaska]
Creator/Contributor:
Langsdorff Group (1803-1807), artist (artist)
Date:
[between 1803 and 1807]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1036--ffALB
Format:
drawing on paper: wash
20.3 x 24.2 cm.
Content/Description:
Six native dancers with tattooed faces; principal dancer wears elaborately decorated costume; five hold groups of eagle feathers;
one leans on stick; four figures (two with protruding lower lips) on ground watching dance; hut with fire in distance; mountains
beyond. See also 1963.002:1020--ALB.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Supplied title. Handwritten (UR, in ink): [...?] zu Tab. XIV. Inscriptions in German.
Subjects:
Alaska;
Clothing & dress;
Discovery & exploration;
Expeditions & surveys;
Indians of North America;
Manners & customs;
Northwest, Pacific;
Voyages to the Pacific;
Women
Genre/Format:
Travel sketches;
Wash drawings