Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Mollhausen, H. B. (active ca. 1854), German, artist
Creator Name:
Sinclair, Thomas S. (active ca. 1849-ca. 1853), lithographer
Creator Role:
artist
Creator Role:
lithographer
Title:
Indian altar and ruins of old Zuni [New Mexico]
Date:
[not before 1854]
Materials:
print on paper: lithograph, color
Dimensions:
23.7 x 30.7 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0478:07--A
Subject:
- Expeditions & surveys
- Indians of North America
- New Mexico
- Railroads
- Rites & ceremonies
- West (U.S.)
- Illustrations
- Lithographs, color
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Male Indian gestures toward religious altar laid out on ground before him. Ruins of stone wall (old Zuni missions?) in distance; two western observers look over shoulders at ceremony.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (LC). Printed (UL): U.S.P.R.R. exp. & surveys, 35th parallel; (UR): Indian report; (LL): H.B.Molhausen; (LR): T.Sinclair's lith., Philad[elphi]a. Likely from the United States Pacific Railroad Survey in California, under the command of Lieut. R.S. Williamson, in 1853-54.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf5w10104 f

Indian altar and ruins of old Zuni [New Mexico]