Image
Description
Content/Description:Two images on one sheet. Upper image: Indian woman wearing grass skirt, grinds acorns in a large conical basket, small child figure stands behind her. Lower image: camp site with tents, well and wagon.
Details
Title
[Digger squaw at Lassin's Diggins and Johnson's Ranch, California]
Published
ca. 1850
Full Collection Name
Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Other Identifiers
BANC PIC 1963.002:0284--B
Subject (Topic)
California, Northern
Settlements
Manners & customs
Indians of North America
Clothing & dress
Women
Settlements
Manners & customs
Indians of North America
Clothing & dress
Women
Type
Image
Format
Drawings
Extent
28 x 22 cm.
Other Physical Details
drawing on paper: ink and pencil
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
Notes/Inscriptions:Supplied title. Handwritten (UL): Digger squaw, at Lassin's Diggins pounding acorns for bread...; (LL): High hill of the coast ranges 12 ms.off; (LR): Johnson's Ranch, 50 ms from Sacramento City, west side of Sacramento River going up valley. 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.
Supplied title. Handwritten (UL): Digger squaw, at Lassin's Diggins pounding acorns for bread...; (LL): High hill of the coast ranges 12 ms.off; (LR): Johnson's Ranch, 50 ms from Sacramento City, west side of Sacramento River going up valley. 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.
Supplied title. Handwritten (UL): Digger squaw, at Lassin's Diggins pounding acorns for bread...; (LL): High hill of the coast ranges 12 ms.off; (LR): Johnson's Ranch, 50 ms from Sacramento City, west side of Sacramento River going up valley. 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.
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