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Title
Pima Indian woman basket maker with her small son, Gila Crossing, 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
Photograph of a Pima Indian woman basket maker with her small son, Gila Crossing, ca.1900. The woman can be seen at right seated in front of her adobe dwelling. She wears a long dress with buttons down the center. Her hair is tied back, and she is in the process of weaving a basket. A bowl can be seen to the right of her, while her son can be seen seated in a child's wagon at left. Another dwelling can be seen in the left background.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
22 x 17 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m16168
USC-1-1-1-13956 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-3560
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m16168
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-3560.jpg
Subject
Indians--Pima
Indians of North America
Pima Indians
Dwellings
Children
Basket makers
Tribal areas
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
Arizona
Gila Crossing
Maricopa
USA
Source
1-162- [Microfiche number]
3560 [Accession number]
CHS-3560 [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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