Inhabitants of Unalaska, Alaska – Antique Hand-Colored Ethnographic Print c.1805

Name: Inhabitants of Unalaska, Alaska – Antique Hand-Colored Ethnographic Print c.1805
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13696-13
Price: 235 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1805
Kind: Native Peoples
Size: 22.5 × 13 cm (8.9 × 5.1 in)
Condition: Good. Good for age. Wide margins retained. Light age toning and a few small spots in margin areas only. Strong impression and well-preserved original hand-coloring.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Alaska
Reference: BG-13696-13

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

The inhabitants of Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands, an original hand-colored engraving titled "Inwooners van Oonolaska", from De Mensch, zoo als hij voorkomt op den bekenden aardbol, the Dutch survey of the world's peoples written by Martinus Stuart and published in Amsterdam around 1805. The drawing is credited "J. Kuyper del." at the lower left, with the engraver's name at the right.

Two figures stand close together. The man at the right wears a long yellow-brown waterproof garment with fringe at the shoulders and a visored wooden hat decorated with a crest of long bristles. He holds a long paddle, with a coil of cord at his waist, and stands on the deck of a skin boat with tools and a float lying around him. The woman at the left, in a fur-trimmed coat decorated with beads and fringes and with ornaments at the face, holds what looks like a carved mask or skull. Snowy mountains and clouds fill the background. The coloring is in olive, gray, blue and brown washes.

Unalaska is in the eastern Aleutians, where Russian traders and the voyages of the late eighteenth century produced the first detailed European images of the Unangan people.

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