Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: The headless Indian
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Collection:
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Museum and the Online Archive of California
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Creator Name:
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Leitch, R. P. (active ca. 1865), artist
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Creator Name:
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Linton, W. J., engraver
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Creator Name:
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Wilson, J. H. (active ca. 1865), artist
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Creator Role:
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engraver
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Title:
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The headless Indian
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Date:
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1865
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Materials:
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print on paper mounted on board: engraving
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Dimensions:
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10.5 x 17.5 cm., on mount 18.8 x 27.5 cm.
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Current Location:
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Bancroft Library.
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Address:
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Berkeley, California 94720-6000
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Object ID:
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BANC PIC 1963.002:0502:11--A
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Subject:
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- Canada
- Expeditions & surveys
- Frontier & pioneer life
- Indians of
North America
- Engravings
- Illustrations
- Portraits
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Content/Description:
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Notes:
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Milton, Cheadle, and Assiniboine Indian boy come across headless body seated, cross-legged, in forest. The Indian apparently died of starvation after eating his horse, although the circumstances of the missing head were not understood.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
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Notes:
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Title from caption in book. Printed (LL, within image): R.P. Leitch & T.H. Wilson; (LR, within image): W.J. Linton, sc. From publication: The North-West passage by land (London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1865), pg. 2296.
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Collection Description:
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METS ID:
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ark:/13030/tf7b69p4nc
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