Dance of the Shee TEA uikEi people, Sitka, Alaska

Dance of the Shee TSuikEi people (Kaluschians), Sitka, Alaska. They wear face paint, stoat-skin clothes, bald eagle feathers in their hair, and chant and dance in a line. Native American dancers of the west coast. Copied from an illustration by artist Georg Langsdorff in Captain Adam Johann von Krusenstern's Voyage autour du Monde, 1810. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1812. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1, 200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc. published from 1790-1830

1812 Alaska Bilderbuch Fur Kinder Carl Bertuch Chant Encyclopedia Engraved Plates Ethnography Face Paint Friedrich Johann Bertuch Native American Natural History Picture Book For Children Sitka Stoat

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