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LL/36167
Smith
1855
Araucanian Chief

Book plate, based on a Daguerreotype
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Lieut. J.M. Gilliss The U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere, During the Years 1849-'50-'51-'52 (Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson, 1855), Volume I - Chile, inserted after p.68.
 
"A cacique who came to Santiago during our residence being thought, by those who had had opportunities to judge, a fair type of the race, a daguerreotype was taken of him by Mr. Smith, and the portrait opposite is copied from it." (p.68)
 
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