Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Choris, Ludwig (1795-1828), Russian, artist (attributed to)
Creator Role:
artist
Title:
[Inhabitants of California and their respective dresses]
Date:
[1822]
Materials:
print on paper: engraving, hand colored
Dimensions:
18.7 x 23.5 cm., image on sheet 25.5 x 41.5 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0369--B
Subject:
- Arms & armaments
- California, Northern
- Clothing & dress
- Indians of
North America
- Engravings, color
- Travel sketches
Heading:
Content/Description:
Notes:
Upper: two male Indians at shoreline, one carrying fish and harpoon, the other paddling raft of bound logs. Lower: Two female Indians standing in landscape, one wearing feather cape and carrying bow and arrows; the other, seen from back, wearing deerskin cape.
Heading:
Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (LC): The inhabitants of California in their respective dresses. Vol. I, p. 234.. Printed (below upper image): An Indian man returned from fishing. An Indian fishing on his bark log.; (below lower image): An Indian woman of distinction covered with the skin of a bird in its feathers. An Indian woman in the ordinary deer skin dress. Ref. note: Pittoresque Autour du Monde (Paris, 1822).
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf2k40083 f

[Inhabitants of California and their respective dresses]