California Indians

Indian Dance at Mission San Jose. Date unknown. unknown artist. Original drawing, etched on copper. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Reproduced courtesy of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. More info »

Indian of California. ca. 1816. Louis Choris, artist. Watercolor on paper. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. More info »

Californie Indien Dansant. Date unknown. L. Massard Choubard. Engraving, color reproduction. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Donors Acquisition Fund. More info »

A village of Native American bark teepees. 1872. Albert Bierstadt, artist. Oil paint on canvas. Collection of Oakland Museum of California, Kahn Collection. More info »

Native American young person. ca. 1851. Issac W. Baker, photographer. Daguerrotype. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. More info »

Toby (the Squaw Who Warned General Canby of His Impending Fate), and Four Old Modoc Squaws. 1873. Eadweard Muybridge, photographer. One frame of albumen stereo card. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. More info »

Ishi, last of the Southern Yahi tribe of California, poses for a portrait taken by a photographer for the University of California Museum of Anthropology. ca. 1911–1916. Photographer unknown. Postcard published by the University of California Museum of Anthropology. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. More info »

Photograph of White Deer Skin Dance along the Redwood Highway, Hupa Tribe. ca. 1900. A. W. Ericson, Photographer. Photograph. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Gift of A. W. Ericson. More info »

Native American farm worker in labor camp. ca. 1935. Dorothea Lange, photographer. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Gift of Paul S. Taylor. More info »

Portrait of Native American man. Date unknown. Michelle Vignes, photographer. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. More info »

Native American children on Alcatraz Island. Date unknown. Michelle Vignes, photographer. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. More info »

Dancers and Traditionalists at the Maidu Big Time held at the Oakland Museum of California. July 12, 1997. Dugan Aguilar, photographer. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. More info »