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Description
Photograph of a Coahuilla Indian woman making basket, Pala (Agua Caliente?), ca.1905. She holds a small bowl-shaped basket with colored patterns woven in the design in her lap as she sits crosslegged on the ground with her back to the wall of a thatched dwelling. She is wearing a long gingham dress.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w 22 x 17 cm. glass plate negatives photographs
Coahuilla Indians Coahuilla, Mission Indians--Basketry Indians--Arts and crafts--Basketry Indians of North America Indians of North America--Industries Baskets Indians of North America--Basket making Tribal areas
Time Period
circa 1905
Place
California Pala USA
Source
1-172-; 1-162- [Microfiche number] 3990 [Accession number] CHS-3990 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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