Views of natives, landscapes, and ethnographic objects of the Northwest Coast of America, Pacific Islands, China, and South America. Half of the drawings are fully rendered watercolors, others are rough sketches with detailed notes on coloring, dates of anchorages, and occasionally events on board ship or shore. Ten watercolors are of Native Americans of the Northwest Coast, eight of them signed by Bacstrom and fully executed after his return. There are ten views of the Northwest Coast of America, including Nootka Sound and Queen Charlotte's Island, and Native American villages at Norfolk Sound and Fitzhugh Sound. There are two maps of Queen Charlotte's Island, six watercolors of canoes from the Northwest Coast and the Pacific Islands, and four drawings of Native American and Pacific island ethnographic objects and There are eighteen watercolor sketches and drawings of the coast of South America and the islands in the Pacific, including Hawaii and Staaten Island near Cape Horn. Other drawings include ten watercolors of Chinese men and women, a pencil drawing of a Chinese junk, and a watercolor of an American tea plant. The drawings are accompanied by a highly finished watercolor of the Greenland Whale Fishery not made during the voyage, and a manuscript catalog of "some accurate and characteristic original drawings" made on the voyage with prices; not all of the drawings listed correspond to drawings present in the collection
Description:
Bacstrom, a protégé of Sir Joseph Banks, served as surgeon on a private fur-trading ship which sailed around Cape Horn to the South Seas, Nootka Sound, the East Indies, and the Cape. Bacstrom left the ship at Nootka Sound and later served as surgeon on several ships, visiting China, India, the Cape, and the Americas., Accompanied by a container list., Manuscript captions., and View a digital version in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest, Pacific, Hawaii, China, Islands of the Pacific, Queen Charlotte Islands (B.C.), South America, and Greenland
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Social life and customs, Clothing and dress, and Whaling
Title from accompanying envelope., "Drawings and linoleum blocks courtesy of the Batman Gallery, San Francisco. Proceeds from the sale of this group of drawings will go to the Native American Church to help legalize the use of peyote in California for the American Indian.", and One of the prints measures 28 x 43 cm. folded to 28 x 22 cm.
"design in two groups, one (left) representing the past, the other (right) the present. A Dutchman personifying the Dutch Republic, threatened by Spain (left) kneels, hat in hand, before a military officer representing England, imploring help. He says, "the poor distracted States of Holland". The Englishman answers, "I am your Friend Mynheer I'll help you up & beat your foes". A Spaniard stands (left) behind the Dutchman's back, his sword raised to strike, his left fist clenched, saying, "I am determined Mynheer you shall never rise more". On the right is another group of figures representing Holland, England, America, France, and Spain: A Dutchman on the extreme right, smoking a pipe, his hands in his breeches pocket, scowls at an English officer, saying, "I am now ye high & Mighty." (The States General of the United Provinces were addressed as Hogen Mogen, 'High Mightinesses'.) The Englishman, a drawn sword in his hand, says to him "Now is ye time to pay ye debt of Gratitude". America, an Indian holding a tomahawk, says to France, pointing to England, It shall never have my Colonies again. France, a French military officer with a drawn sword, wearing spurred jack-boots, points to England, saying, "begar me will have half his Possessions". Spain, in cloak and feathered hat, also with a drawn sword, stands behind France saying "Don Diego has vow'd the downfall of England." Beneath the design verses are engraved: "See Holland oppress'd by his old Spanish Foe, To England with cap in hand kneels very low, The Free-hearted Britton, dispels all its care, And raises it up from the brink of Dispair. But when three spitefull foes old England beset, The Dutchman refuses to pay a Just debt; With his hands in his pockets he says he'll stand Neuter, And England his Friend may be D------d for the Future.""--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Foreign relations, Dutch, Caricatures and cartoons, French, Spaniards, Caricatures and cartons, Americans, Indians of North America, and Clothing & dress
Print shows a Native American villiage near the edge of woods on right, grass land to left, hills in background; in foreground, a Native American holds a horse by its halter; on left, a small group of women and children by a fire; on right, five men talking, two are seated; near tipis in center image, a man of European descent sits on a horse beside a Native American man
Description:
Title from caption above image.
Publisher:
Verlag von J. F. Schreiber
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America and Social life and customs
Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"At sunset, their day's journey finished, they halt, perhaps, in the forest by the roadside, to prepare for supper and to pass the night. The horses are unharnessed, watered and secured, with their heads to the trough, or else hoppled out to grass."
Description:
P. 35 [279].
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America
Reproduction of Charles Schreyvogel's oil painting "Fight to the finish." Depicts a scene of Native Americans on horseback. Two in close combat foregrounded. Others in background
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +216: Blind stamped in lower left corner: Copyright 1912 by Chs. Schreyvogel., Title from the oil painting on which the print is based., and In lower right corner of print, signed: Chas Schreyvogel copyright 1912.
Box 57 | Arizona, Utah Petroglyphs Quaray [Quarry], My Indian Film Strip Art New Glyphs
Image Count:
42
Description:
The description of this slide reflects the way that Erdoes organized 35mm slides. Erdoes arranged his slides in labeled containers that were sub-divided into labeled sections. The title for this image has been transcribed from its sub-section label; images of other slides from the same sub-section share the container title. The date listed here reflects a span of known dates associated the sub-section. In some cases, titles have been expanded to note particular individuals who appear frequently and who were identified by Erdoes in captions. Individual slide captions have not been transcribed or captured during digitization.
Reproduction of a work by Seth Eastman from a sketch by J. H. Eaton. Depicts Fort Defiance as built in 1851-1852. In the foreground, Native Americans approach the fort in a line on horseback; within the fort, U.S. Army soldiers drill. The fort is at the foot of an escarpment. One-third of the image is of sky
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Below image, centered: Pl. 29.
