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Title
Musha, a Navajo Captain, on his burro, 1898
Creator
James, George Wharton
Date Created and/or Issued
1898
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 Musha, a Navajo Captain, on his burro, 1898. He wears a bandana tied around his head, a long-sleeved shirt, dark-colored trousers, and a large coat. He holds a stick in his right hand. A rough post and rail fence forms a corral, in which another burro is grazing, behind him. In the background at center, a large fruit tree grows in the corral.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m16946
USC-1-1-1-13946 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-4620
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m16946
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-4620.jpg
Subject
Indians--Navajo
Indians of North America
Navajo Indians
Clothing and dress
Horses
Men
Tribal areas
Time Period
1898
Place
USA
Source
4620 [Accession number]
CHS-4620 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: James-165 [Identifying number]
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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