Title:
[Dance of Indians at Mission in San Jose, New California]
Creator/Contributor:
Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlief (1769-1857), German, artist (attributed to) (artist)
Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (1773-), German, artist (artist)
Date:
[between 1803 and 1807]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1023--FR
Format:
drawing on paper: ink, wash, and gouache
22.4 x 28.2 cm.
Content/Description:
Six Indians with elaborately painted and tattooed bodies, wearing costumes and headdresses, dance in clearing near river.
Possibly the earliest known view of Mission Indians in native costumes at Mission San Jose, California.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Supplied title. Handwritten title (LC): Ein Tanz der Indianer in der Mission in St. Jose in Neu-Californien. Signature (LR):
Dessiné par G. de Langsdorff. Handwritten (UR): XIII. Attribution to Tilesius von Tilenau based on Van Nostrand's California
Pictorial. Ref. note: Langsdorff--German ed., Vol. II, Plate 10; text, p. 43; English edition, Vol. II, Plate 2; text, p.
48. Inscriptions in German.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Clothing & dress;
Discovery & exploration;
Expeditions & surveys;
Indians of North America;
Manners & customs;
Missions;
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.);
Voyages to the Pacific
Genre/Format:
Travel sketches;
Wash drawings
