[Chemehuevi Indians of the Colorado River region] – Historic Print
![[Chemehuevi Indians of the Colorado River region], [1861] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/24/246435ee92b3-L.webp)
(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.)
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Step back in time with [Chemehuevi Indians of the Colorado River region], an antique lithograph rich in period 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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[Chemehuevi Indians of the Colorado River region]
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The Chemehuevi were a people of the Colorado River region, and this chromolithograph shows them in the dress of the time, a rare sight for a printed government document. It appeared in the 1861 *Report upon the Colorado River of the West*, the account of the surveys the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers carried out along the river in 1857 and 1858. Such plates were meant to record the land and its peoples for officials and the public, so the clothing shown here offers a useful, if outsider's, glimpse of Native life on the river in the late 1850s.
| Created / published | [1861] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1860-1870.Chromolithographs Color 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Report upon the Colorado River of the West, explored in 1857 and 1858 / United States Army Corps of Topographical Engineers. Washington : Govt. Print. Off., 1861. Published in: Many nations: A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Indian and Alaska native peoples of the United States / edited by Patrick Frazier and the Publishing Office. Washington : Library of Congress, 1996, p. 137. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1850-1860. Chemehuevi Indians--Clothing & dress--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,117 × 4,089 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218672 |
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