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143/272Description
Pimo Women, Arthur Schott, Artist. Color lithograph of two Pimo women carrying burdens on their heads. One woman is facing the other is walking away and is seen only from the back. The females are wearing cloth skirt wrappings, with no apparel on the torso. One female is balancing an open basket on her head and carrying the lid in her hand. The other woman is balancing a large jug. Rounded huts are barely visible in the distance. The foreground is cacti. . Lithograph of 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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Arthur Schott