Portraits
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 111 Collections and/or Records:
Original portraits of Indian chiefs [art original] / by Samuel Seymour, official artist of Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, 1819-1920
Collection
Identifier: 61-D
Scope and Contents
Portraits of six members of the 1821-1822 Native American delegation to Washington, DC. Probably copies of paintings by Charles Bird King lost in the 1865 Smithsonian fire. "These paintings are by neither Seymour nor King." Cf. note by William Sturtevant, Smithsonian Institution, May 1970. Caption and date handwritten on verso of each painting.
Dates:
1822
Photographic slides of people in New Guinea, 1986.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 578
Abstract
Mostly portraits of native peoples in New Guinea. Also shows native dress, animals, ceremonies, and villages.
Dates:
1986