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Collection: Directories and Documents > Tanis Thorne Native Californian & Nisenan Collection

The Nisenan Photographs of Alexander W. Chase (2016) (15 pages)

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320 Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology . Vol. 36, No. 2 (2016) Capetan 4 litte. tal See Se §. sforisle ; Mo fee, me j ‘e agate. Cry acs Yee Oe PRG 0s BIER flan qa ves ‘ fo Ped Figure 7. “Capitan. Indien Californien du Sud. Stanislau. Coiffé d’une vielle résille mexicaine.” Hand-colored engraving, undoubtedly based upon an 1850s sketch by Louis Jules Rupalley. Courtesy of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Banc Pic 1963.002:1305G-ALE. image (2006:Fig. 17) depicts a group of Konkow men (all presumably prominent members of their community) gambling in a large dance house; several of them are wearing elaborate hairnets. Figure 7 depicts a man who is identified as being a chief from the Stanislaus River area, and who therefore might have been a member of one of the Northern Valley Yokuts groups. The hand-colored engraving, with its handwritten caption, was undoubtedly created by or was based upon an original drawing by Jules Rupalley, a Frenchman who lived in Greenwood, near Coloma, for several years during the 1850s (Chalmers 2000:162-64). Rupalley was a fine artist with a particular interest in botany; his many beautifully-rendered pictures of native plants often have French notations giving the local Indian names for the plants. The chief shown here is again wearing a hairnet and a hairpin; the hairnet, though stated to be of ‘Mexican’ style, seems clearly traditional in form.