MS 1306 Drawings related to Tribes of California
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 1306
name: label: Creator
content: Powers, Stephen, 1840-1904
place: label: Place
content: North America
label: Place
content: California
topic: label: Topic
content: Petroglyphs
label: Topic
content: Tattooing
creator: label: Creator
content: Powers, Stephen, 1840-1904
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content: MS 1306 Drawings related to Tribes of California
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Stephen Powers (1840–1904) was an American journalist, ethnographer, and historian of Native American tribes in California. He was the author of  Tribes of California (1877) published by the US Geological Survey and Bureau of Ethnology.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 7 Drawings (visual works) (pencil and ink)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS1306
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Drawings
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The drawings in this collection were originally cataloged under MS 1306, MS 1303 and MS 2398.

In 2023, the collection was reprocessed and the drawings were incorporated into a single collection under number MS 1306.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of ten (10) drawings related to:

Powell, John Wesley and Stephen Powers. Tribes of California. United States: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1877.

It includes four drawings of facial tattooing, similar but not identical to figures 10-18, and two sketches of Senel (figure 19).  There are also drawings of petroglyphs and figures which do not appear in the published text.

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