Native American hunters of San Francisco Bay, 19th century.


Hunters of San Francisco Bay, 19th century. Both wear topknots and earrings, one in a loincloth preparing to fire an arrow, the other with arrows in a quiver made from an animal skin. After Louis Choris' Tcholovonis a la chasse from Voyage Pittoresque Autour du Monde, 1822. Handcoloured lithograph from James Cowles Prichard's Natural History of Man, Balliere, London, 1855.


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