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LithographEntry/Object ID
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Yumas, Arthur Schott, Artist . Color lithograph subtitled: Figure to the left, Portrait of Leoch . Depicts 2 females and 1 male Indian. The female are wearing only grass skirts and no apparel on the torseau except pendant necklaces. They are holding sunflowers. The male is facing the female so is seen only from the back. He is wearing breech cloth tied around his waist with sides open. 2 feathers are tied in his hair and hie is carrying arrows in his left hand and a long bow in the right. They are by a body of water. Lithograph by Sarony and Co. 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, Leoch, Yuma Tribe, Native American, Yuma