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[State Historical Society of Colorado woodcut prints of Native American activities].
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[State Historical Society of Colorado woodcut prints of Native American activities]Creator/Contributor:
State Historical Society of Colorado, creator, publisher.Creator/Contributor:
Keeler, Harold, artist.Creator/Contributor:
Scott, San, artist.Creator/Contributor:
Federal Art ProjectCreator/Contributor:
United States, Work Projects Administration.Abstract:
Educational prints depicting various activities of Native Americans and trappers from Colorado's history.
Date:
1940 (issued)Contents:
1. The trapper; trapping beaver / Harold Keeler and Sam Scott -- 2. The trapper; Red River cart / Harold Keeler and Sam Scott
-- 3. The rendezvous / Harold Keeler and Sam Scott -- 4. The trapper; food and clothing / Harold Keeler and Sam Scott -- 5.
Wapiti is the correct name for the American "elk"; our moose is of the elk genus; our American "buffalo" is rightly, bison;
the water buffalo of India is the true buffalo; [many additional captions pertaining to trappers, their prey and their relation
to Native Americans] / Miller -- 6. War / Miller -- 7. Nomadic Indian tribes; tipi construction / Miller -- 8. [No title;
group of four Native Americans, hunting hare, with village structures in background] / [artist unknown] -- 9. Nomadic Indian
tribes; dog travel / -- [artist unknown]
Subject:
n-us-coIndians of North America -- Colorado -- Pictorial works
Trappers -- Colorado -- Pictorial works
Peuples autochtones -- Colorado -- Ouvrages illustrés
Trappeurs -- Colorado -- Ouvrages illustrés
Indians of North America
Trappers
Colorado -- History -- Pictorial works
Colorado -- Histoire -- Ouvrages illustrés
Colorado
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Commissioned by State Historical Society of Colorado; funded by Federal Art Project of Works Progress Administration.
Most prints include title and other descriptive text, and names of publisher and artists, printed at lower edge and/or elsewhere
in image.
Identified artists include Harold Keeler, Sam Scott and Miller.
Purchase ; From Margolis & Moss ; 2017.
State Historical Society of Colorado woodcut prints of Native American activities, BANC PIC 2018.007, The Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicHistory.
Pictorial works.
Woodcuts-Colorado.
Prints, color.
Physical Description:
print
9 prints in 1 folder : color woodcuts on paper ; sheets 31 x 44 cm
Language:
English