Name/Title
LithographEntry/Object ID
143/276Description
Papagos, Arthur Schott, Artist. Southwest Indian color lithograph titled: Papagos. Depicts 2 Indian women harvesting seed pods from a tall cactus with long thin poles. The women are in cloth mid-thigh length skirts and cloth mid-riff blouses with long full sleeves. One woman is wearing leather wrapped sandals, the other barefoot. The are both wearing wolved hats tied under the chin. 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, Papagos