Title:
[Inhabitants of California and their respective dresses]
Creator/Contributor:
Choris, Ludwig (1795-1828), Russian, artist (attributed to) (artist)
Date:
[1822]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0369--B
Format:
print on paper: engraving, hand colored
18.7 x 23.5 cm., image on sheet 25.5 x 41.5 cm.
Content/Description:
Upper: two male Indians at shoreline, one carrying fish and harpoon, the other paddling raft of bound logs. Lower: Two female
Indians standing in landscape, one wearing feather cape and carrying bow and arrows; the other, seen from back, wearing deerskin
cape.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC): The inhabitants of California in their respective dresses. Vol. I, p. 234.. Printed (below upper image):
An Indian man returned from fishing. An Indian fishing on his bark log.; (below lower image): An Indian woman of distinction
covered with the skin of a bird in its feathers. An Indian woman in the ordinary deer skin dress. Ref. note: Pittoresque Autour
du Monde (Paris, 1822).
Subjects:
Arms & armaments;
California, Northern;
Clothing & dress;
Indians of North America
Genre/Format:
Engravings, color;
Travel sketches