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Title
Young Chemehuevi Indian girl, ca.1900
Creator
James, George Wharton
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society Collection at Stanford
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a young Chemehuevi Indian girl, ca.1900. Portrait from the waist up. She stands outside in front of the wall of a stick and thatch dwelling. She wears a print dress and a kerchief around her head tied under her chin. Her hands are drawn together in front of the right side of her chest grasping a cloth. She has a ring on the 2nd finger of her right hand. She is looking up and to her left.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
22 x 17 cm.
glass plate negatives
transparencies
photographs
Identifier
chs-m16094
USC-1-1-1-13493 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-3477
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m16094
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-3477.jpg
Subject
Chemehuevi Indians
Indians
Indians--Chemehuevi
Indians of North America
Women
Tribal areas
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
USA
Source
1-164- [Microfiche number]
3477 [Accession number]
CHS-3477 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Kroeber and Heizer. Almost Ancestors--The First Californians. Sierra Club, p. 88, plate 52.; C.E. Guarino auction catalog, July 1983
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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