Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Group Creator Name:
- Langsdorff Group (1803-1807), artist
Title:
[Dancing Kaluschians of Sitka, Alaska]
Date:
[between 1803 and 1807]
Materials:
drawing on paper: wash
Dimensions:
20.3 x 24.2 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1036--ffALB
Subject:
- Alaska
- Clothing & dress
- Discovery & exploration
- Expeditions &
surveys
- Indians of North America
- Manners & customs
- Northwest,
Pacific
- Voyages to the Pacific
- Women
- Travel sketches
- Wash drawings
Heading:
Content/Description:
Notes:
Six native dancers with tattooed faces; principal dancer wears elaborately decorated costume; five hold groups of eagle feathers; one leans on stick; four figures (two with protruding lower lips) on ground watching dance; hut with fire in distance; mountains beyond. See also 1963.002:1020--ALB.
Heading:
Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Supplied title. Handwritten (UR, in ink): [...?] zu Tab. XIV. Inscriptions in German.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf0c6006n t

[Dancing Kaluschians of Sitka, Alaska]