MS 7372 De Lancey Gill drawings of Cocopa face and land markings
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 7372
name: label: Creator
content: Gill, De Lancey, 1859-1940
place: label: Place
content: Colorado River Valley (Colo.-Mexico)
label: Place
content: North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Body marking
creator: label: Creator
content: Gill, De Lancey, 1859-1940
culture: label: Culture
content: Cocopa
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: De Lancey W. Gill (1859-1940) was a Washington, DC-based artist and photographer. Between 1884 and 1898, he served as a draftsman and illustrations editor for the United States Geological Survey. From 1889-1932, he also worked as illustrations editor for the Bureau of American Ethnology.  Gill made over 2,000 portraits during his career, some during anthropological expeditions to Virginia, Arizona, New Mexico and northwestern Mexico.  In 1900, he served as artist on an expedition led by W J McGee to study the Seri and Cocopa along the Colorado River.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Drawings (visual works) (pencil, 11 x 15 inches )
label: Extent
content: 1 Page (explanatory note)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1900
container: label: Container
content: Box 7372 / 7413, Folder 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS7372
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Drawings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Drawings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection is comprised of three (3) drawings and an explanatory note.  Two  drawings depict land markings along the Colorado River valley, south of Yuma and adjacent to several Cocopa villages.  The note describes marks made depicted in one of these drawings.  The third drawing depicts face markings on Cocopa men and women. 

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