Title:
Indian altar and ruins of old Zuni [New Mexico]
Creator/Contributor:
Mollhausen, H. B. (active ca. 1854), German, artist (artist)
Sinclair, Thomas S. (active ca. 1849-ca. 1853), lithographer (lithographer)
Date:
[not before 1854]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0478:07--A
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, color
23.7 x 30.7 cm.
Content/Description:
Male Indian gestures toward religious altar laid out on ground before him. Ruins of stone wall (old Zuni missions?) in distance;
two western observers look over shoulders at ceremony.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (UL): U.S.P.R.R. exp. & surveys, 35th parallel; (UR): Indian report; (LL): H.B.Molhausen; (LR):
T.Sinclair's lith., Philad[elphi]a. Likely from the United States Pacific Railroad Survey in California, under the command
of Lieut. R.S. Williamson, in 1853-54.
Subjects:
Expeditions & surveys;
Indians of North America;
New Mexico;
Railroads;
Rites & ceremonies;
West (U.S.)
Genre/Format:
Illustrations;
Lithographs, color