Title:
[Arms and utensils of California Indians]
Creator/Contributor:
Choris, Ludwig (1795-1828), Russian, artist (artist)
Date:
[1822]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0367--B
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, color
25.3 x 42.3 cm.
Content/Description:
Four decorated baskets, animal skin quiver with arrows, and bow.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC): Armes et ustensiles de Californie. Printed (LL): Dessiné and lith. par L. Choris. Printed title (LC).
Plate number VIII (UR). Numbers 1-5 identify each object. Handwritten (UR): Californie. Lithographs based on sketches made
during 1816 visit to California were published in L. Choris' Voyage Pittoresque Autour du Monde (Paris: Firmin Didot, 1822).
Inscriptions in French.
Subjects:
Arms & armaments;
Discovery & exploration;
Indians of North America;
Voyages to the Pacific
Genre/Format:
Artifacts;
Lithographs, color;
Travel sketches