[Dance of Indians at Mission in San Jose, New California]
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- Created Date
- [between 1803 and 1807]
- 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.
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.
- Creator
Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlief (1769-1857), German, artist (attributed to) Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (1773-), German, artist
- Partner
- California Digital Library
- Contributing Institution
- UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
- Collection
- Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
- Publisher
- Bancroft Library
- Subjects
- California, Northern
Clothing & dress
Discovery & exploration
Expeditions & surveys
Indians of North America
Manners & customs
Missions
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
Voyages to the Pacific - Type
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- Chicago citation style
- Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlief (1769-1857), German, artist (attributed to) Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (1773-), German, artist. [Dance of Indians at Mission in San Jose, New California]. [between 1803 and 1807]. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8j49p5fc. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlief (1769-1857), German, artist (attributed to) Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (1773-), German, artist, ([between 1803 and 1807]) [Dance of Indians at Mission in San Jose, New California]. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8j49p5fc
- MLA citation style
- Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlief (1769-1857), German, artist (attributed to) Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (1773-), German, artist. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8j49p5fc>.