Mission Indians of Southern California making baskets and hair ropes – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare antique engraving captures Mission Indians of Southern California making baskets and hair ropes in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Mission Indians of Southern California making baskets and hair ropes
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This wood engraving shows Native people from the Mission Indian communities of Southern California weaving baskets and twisting hair ropes, two crafts that continued among families who had lived near the former Spanish missions. It was made from a drawing by Frenzeny, the French-born illustrator who contributed scenes of the American West to *Harper's Weekly*, and it appeared in the magazine's October 20, 1877, issue on page 821. Print culture of the late 1870s often presented such work as picturesque, so the scene is worth reading with care: the craftsmanship is the subject, but the image was made for an eastern audience with its own assumptions about California and its peoples.
| Created / published | 1877 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Wood engraving after drawing by Frenzeny. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1877 Oct. 20, p. 821. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Artists, Publ. I.; Indians--Baskets; Indian tribes--Ca.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,077 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-135850 |
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