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![(PD) Painting: Georg von Langsdorff / José Cardero Georg von Langsdorff, an early visitor to California, sketched a group of Costeño dancers at Mission San José in 1806.[1][2]](/wiki/images/thumb/8/8e/Mission_San_Jose_natives.jpg/238px-Mission_San_Jose_natives.jpg)
(PD) Painting: Georg von Langsdorff / José Cardero
Georg von Langsdorff, an early visitor to California, sketched a group of Costeño dancers at Mission San José in 1806.[1][2]
(PD) Painting: Jean Baptiste Debret
Indians dancing at the San José Mission in 1839, from Voyage Pittoresque et Historique au Bresil.
(PD) Painting: Henry Chapman Ford
Mission San José, circa 1880-1881.
(PD) Painting: Will Sparks
Mission San José, between 1933 and 1937.
(PD) Photo: United States Navy
USNS Mission San Jose (T-AO-125) underway in Long Beach Harbor area, date unknown.
![(PD) Painting: Georg von Langsdorff / José Cardero Georg von Langsdorff, an early visitor to California, sketched a group of Costeño dancers at Mission San José in 1806.[1][2]](/wiki/File:Mission_San_Jose_natives.jpg)
- ↑ von Langsdorff, p. 5: "The hair of these people is very coarse, thick, and stands erect; in some it is powdered with down feathers." Langsdorff noted, "Their bodies are fantastically painted with charcoal dust, red clay, and chalk. The foremost dancer is ornamented all over with down feathers, which gives him a monkey-like appearance; the hindermost has had the whimsical idea of painting his body to imitate the uniform of a Spanish soldier, with his boots, stockings, breeches, and upper garments."
- ↑ Paddison, p. 130