Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Choris, Ludwig (1795-1828), Russian, artist
Creator Role:
artist
Title:
[War dance costumes of the inhabitants of California]
Date:
[1816]
Materials:
drawing on paper: watercolor
Dimensions:
27.5 x 23 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1313 (recto)--FR
Subject:
- Clothing & dress
- Expeditions & surveys
- Indians of North America
- Rites & ceremonies
- Voyages to the Pacific
- Drawings
- Travel sketches
- Watercolors
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Color studies of two Indians (identified in pencil as Olompoli and Sactan) in war dance costumes (headdress, body paint, and costume). Several additional pencil sketches of dancing figures (one identified as Guymon).
Heading:
Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Handwritten title (LC): Costumes de danse de guerre des habitans de la Californie du voisinage de la mission de Sn. Francisco. Date based on Otto von Kotzebue Expedition visit to California in 1816. Inscriptions in French.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf0b69n9w s

[War dance costumes of the inhabitants of California]