Title:
[Dancing Kaluschians of Sitka, Alaska]
Creator/Contributor:
Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (1773-), German, artist (artist)
Date:
[between 1803 and 1807]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1020--ffALB
Format:
drawing on paper: wash
22.2 x 27.4 cm.
Content/Description:
Six native dancers with tattooed faces; principal dancer wears elaborately decorated costume; five hold groups of eagle feathers;
one leans on a stick; four persons (two with protruding lower lips) on ground watching dance; hut with fire in distance; mountains
beyond. See also 1963.002:1036--ALB.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Supplied title. Handwritten (LC, in ink): Die Kaluschen in Sitcha bey einem Tanz; (LR, in ink): Dr. Langsdorff ad natur. del.;
(UR, in ink): Tab. XIV; (on verso): Langsdorff... Ref. note: Langsdorff-German edition, Vol. II, Plate 7; text, p. 98; English
edition, Vol. II., Plate 3; text, p. 114. 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