Native Americans of California in headdresses for a dance performance. They wear elaborate blue and yellow feather headdresses, face paint and jewelry. (Mislabeled Central American Indians, Mosquito Shore.) After an illustration by Louis Choris in Voyage Pittoresque autour du Monde, 1822. Woodcut from Robert Brown’s The Races of Mankind, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, 1873.

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