Antique Print of Alaska Costumes by Cook, 1803

Name: Antique Print of Alaska Costumes by Cook, 1803
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-11487-87
Price: 280 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1803
Maker: J. Cook (Artist)
Kind: Native Peoples
Size: 28 × 41 cm (11 × 16.1 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning and some wear. Please study images carefully.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Alaska
Reference: BG-11487-87

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Two hats of the inhabitants of Unalaska, a copper engraving from the Dutch edition of Captain Cook's voyages, "Reizen rondom de Waereld," translated by J. D. Pasteur and published by Honkoop, Allart and Van Cleef, 1803. The plate is lettered in Dutch "Hoeden der Inwoners van Oonalashka," with a plate number at the upper right.

The sheet shows two pieces of headwear drawn to the same scale on a plain ground, framed by a ruled border. At the upper right, a broad flat disk with a fringed edge, a radiating pattern of bands and three feathers hanging from a cord. At the lower left, a pointed visor-like cap with a decorated pattern of fine lines and a fringed rim, with leather ties hanging down.

Cook's third voyage called at Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands in 1778, and the voyage accounts illustrated the dress, tools and dwellings of the people encountered there. Plates of objects like these, engraved after drawings by the expedition's artists, gave European readers some of their first detailed views of the material culture of the North Pacific.

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