Content/Description:Six Indians with elaborately painted and tattooed bodies, wearing costumes and headdresses, dance in clearing near river. Possibly the earliest known view of Mission Indians in native costumes at Mission San Jose, California.
Details
Title
[Dance of Indians at Mission in San Jose, New California]
Other Physical Details
drawing on paper: ink, wash, and gouache
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
Notes/Inscriptions:Supplied title. Handwritten title (LC): Ein Tanz der Indianer in der Mission in St. Jose in Neu-Californien. Signature (LR): Dessiné par G. de Langsdorff. Handwritten (UR): XIII. Attribution to Tilesius von Tilenau based on Van Nostrand's California Pictorial. Ref. note: Langsdorff--German ed., Vol. II, Plate 10; text, p. 43; English edition, Vol. II, Plate 2; text, p. 48. Inscriptions in German. Backing paper and labels from former frame, dating from the mid-20th century, have been preserved and shelved as BANC PIC 1963.002:1023--B. Supplied title. Handwritten title (LC): Ein Tanz der Indianer in der Mission in St. Jose in Neu-Californien. Signature (LR): Dessiné par G. de Langsdorff. Handwritten (UR): XIII. Attribution to Tilesius von Tilenau based on Van Nostrand's California Pictorial. Ref. note: Langsdorff--German ed., Vol. II, Plate 10; text, p. 43; English edition, Vol. II, Plate 2; text, p. 48. Inscriptions in German.
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