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Title: Native American pictographs
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: A prehistoric painting representing a man with a feather in his hair is painted in red on a granite boulder at Rock Castle, 6 miles north of Lake Hughes. Photo dated: Nov. 16, 1937.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00065539
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA B-4219 4x5
CARL0000069940
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2818
Subject: Rock paintings--California--Lake Hughes
Native Americans--California--Lake Hughes
Indian painting--California--Lake Hughes
Boulders--California--Lake Hughes
Granite--California--Lake Hughes
Figure painting--California--Lake Hughes
Lake Hughes (Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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