1853 Yampai Indians
DESCRIPTION
By: R. H. Kern
Date: 1853, Published Rudolph Ackerman, New York
Dimensions: 4.5 x 7.5 inches
"The Yampai Indians", 1853, is Plate 17, from the report of an Expedition down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers, by Captain L. Sitgreaves. The scene portrays a group doing various chores. One might be making a basket, another is using a tool on a horned animal skull while the adult and child observe. In the background are two Native Americans possibly hunting with a spear. A bow with a quiver filled with arrows appears in the right foreground.
R. H. Kern was an artist and western explorer, who gave the American public some of its earliest authentic graphic images of the people and landscape of Arizona, New Mexico, and southern Colorado.
Condition: This antique print is in B condition with toning in the margins and picture itself.
Inventory # 92134
CONDITION
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