Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Leitch, R. P. (active ca. 1865), artist
Creator Name:
Linton, W. J., engraver
Creator Name:
Wilson, J. H. (active ca. 1865), artist
Creator Role:
artist
Creator Role:
engraver
Title:
The headless Indian
Date:
1865
Materials:
print on paper mounted on board: engraving
Dimensions:
10.5 x 17.5 cm., on mount 18.8 x 27.5 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0502:11--A
Subject:
- Canada
- Expeditions & surveys
- Frontier & pioneer life
- Indians of
North America
- Engravings
- Illustrations
- Portraits
Heading:
Content/Description:
Notes:
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.
Heading:
Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
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.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf7b69p4n c

The headless Indian