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Native American Marks

Date: 08 05 1820
Description: Sketches of Native American marks in James Doty's travel journal. Most of the marks represent different types of fish.
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Kenisteno, and his Band of Trout Lake, Wisconsin

Date: 1851
Description: Kenisteno, and his Band of Trout Lake, Wisconsin. One row of birds, animals and fish pictographs.
Book or Pamphlet

Synopsis of Indian Hieroglyphics

Date: 1851
Description: Synopsis of Indian Hieroglyphics. Pictographs 71-140, including birds, human figures, plants, animals and other symbols.
Book or Pamphlet

Two Pictographs, Okundekund and Kakake-Ogwunaosh

Date: 1851
Description: Two pictographs: Pictograph C., Okundekund, and his Band of Ontonagon, Michigan, and Pictograph D., Kakake-Ogwunaosh, and his Band of the Head of the Wisc...
Book or Pamphlet

Kaizheosh, and his Band from Lake Vieu Desert

Date: 1851
Description: Pictograph E., Plate 63, "Kaizheosh, and his Band from Lake Vieu Desert. Michigan and Wisconsin." A group of symbols including birds, animals, a fish and a...
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Blacktip Grouper

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph, prepared from drawings by Bayard Taylor, depicts two highly colored fish, identified as Serranus tsirimenara, top, and
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Sebastes Marmoratus

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph, made from drawings by Hamilton Patterson, Perry Expedition draftsman, of two colorful fish. Both are identified as Sebastes
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Three Fish of Japan

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph of three fish specimens collected near Japan, from drawings prepared by H. Patterson. No. 1, top, is identified as Pelor japon...
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Six Fish of Japan

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph prepared from drawings by Perry expedition draftsman Hamilton Patterson of specimens collected in the waters of Japan. Included a...
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Four Fish of Japan

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph prepared from drawings made by draftsman Hamilton Patterson of four fish collected on Perry's expedition to Japan. They are numbe...
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Three Fish of Japan

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph of three colorful fish collected and drawn by an unnamed artist on Perry's expedition to Japan. No. 1 is identified as Serranu...
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Two Salmon of Japan

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph of two species of salmon collected near Hakodate, Japan by members of the Perry expedition. James Carson Brevoort later studied t...
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Three Fish of Japan

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph of three fish specimens collected near Hakodate, Japan by members of the Perry expedition. At top, a young fish identified only a...
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Two Eels of Japan

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph of two eels, created from drawings and descriptions of specimens collected by members of the Perry expedition. No. 1, top, was co...
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Two Sharks of Japan

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph prepared from drawings and descriptions of two shark specimens collected near Shimoda by members of Perry's Japan expedition. No....

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