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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photographic portrait of a Mojave Indian sitting near an adobe wall, ca.1885. The man is seated on a stone wall at center and is shown full length with his legs crossed in front of him and his hands in his lap. He is facing straight ahead. He is wearing a small dark jacket, dark pants, and a light shirt. He has long dark hair that reaches nearly to his waist. In addition to the rocks on which he is sitting, there are more rocks behind him on a hill, and an adobe wall is visible at right. There is a wooden building on a stone foundation up the hill to the left. Photoprint reads: "Early method of hair dress(?)".
Type
image
Format
3 photographs photoprints, b&w 16 x 10 cm, 26 x 21 cm. photographic prints photographs
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