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Title
Portrait of a Yuma Indian woman, ca.1900
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
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
Photographic portrait of a Yuma Indian woman, ca.1900. The woman is shown from her upper torso to her head and is looking slightly to the left with her body turned to the right. She is bare-chested and is wearing a beaded collar with a beaded decoration down the middle of her chest. She has neatly combed straight dark hair with thick bangs and a heavy, round face.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photoprints, b&w
26 x 21 cm., 17 x 13 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m13854
USC-1-1-1-14010 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-11786
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m13854
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-11786.jpg
Subject
Indians--Yuma
Indians of North America
Yuma Indians
Women
Indians of North America--Portraits
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
USA
Source
11786 [Accession number]
CHS-11786 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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