Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
[Unknown]
Title:
[Yurok? Indians: men, women and children, Humboldt County, California?]
Date:
[ca. 1850]
Materials:
drawing on paper: watercolor
Dimensions:
27.9 x 21.7 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0295--B
Subject:
- California, Northern
- Children
- Clothing & dress
- Indians of North
America
- Manners & customs
- Women
- Drawings
- Watercolors
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Indian group near wooden plank house. Male stands holding bow and quiver of arrows, wearing skirt with decorated belt, headdress and shoes. Naked figure at right holds spear, child leans on his right hip; two children wrestle at far right. Group of women in background involved in various activities. Women wear facial tattoos and decorated basket skull caps.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Supplied title. For preparatory drawing see 1963.002:294--B. The group of drawings 1963.002:0283 - 1963.002:0301 appear to be related. Some share stylistic, physical, and topical characteristics and may have came from the same source. For more information see Inventory Sheets.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf209nb47 z

[Yurok? Indians: men, women and children, Humboldt County, California?]