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This is an engraved print, probably from a copper plate, from a compilation of voyage illustrations put together by John Harris. Two images appear on the folio page. The first illustrates male California Indians, probably Pericu from Cabo San Lucas in Baja California. One man holds a fish, the other is paddling by on his bark log. The second drawing is of two Californian women, one a "Woman of Distinction" wearing a feather cape and carrying a bow and arrow; the other woman is dressed in a deer skin. The top illustration and the left half of the bottom is similar to a handpainted engraving in the collections, from Middleton's "Complete System of Geography" published in 1777. Since this engraving was in a folio of 1744, the Middleton version is obviously later (see record 68.262.7). Rose Marie Beebe and Robert Senkewicz, eds., illustrate man with fish in "Lands of Promise and Despair" Heyday Books: Santa Clara, 2001: 2 and make reference to its origin with George Shelvocke and Woodes Rogers' "A Cruising Voyage Round the World (1712). This is one of the first authentic drawing of an actual Native Californian. (pck 2005).