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LITHOGRAPHEntry/Object ID
143/271Description
Co Co Pas, Arthur Schott, Artist. Southwest Indian color lithograph titled: Co-Co-Pas. Depicts three Indians seated beside a stream. Two are facing the one on the right. Two of the Indians appear to be playing cards. One is dressed in a Calvary tunic. the other in a European style tunic. Both without covering on their legs. One is wearing a stove-pipe style hat. The third Indian is a female with no apparel on her torso but a wrapped cloth skirt. She is hold beads in her hand. Lithograph by Sarony, Major & Knapp, New York.. c. 1851
Arthur Schott (1814-1875), a German schooled at the Royal Gardens in Stuttgart and Institute of Agriculture in Hohenstein, was hired by the United States Boundary Commission in 1851, working with William H. Emory survey the boundary between Texas and west to Yuma. Schott did over 200 drawings, with 25 watercolors.
Lithographs and engravings based on Schott's Texas drawings were published in Emory's official report, most notably those of Seminole, Lipan Apache, and Kiowa Indians, the Military Plaza in San Antonio, Mexican military colony of Piedras Negras, and falls of the Rio Grande.Collection
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Southwest Indian Tribes, Native American, Southwest Indians