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Title
Hopi Indian mother with her baby on her back getting water from an olla outside an adobe dwelling, 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 Hopi Indian mother with her baby on her back getting water from an olla outside an adobe dwelling, ca.1900. Her dark hair is worn in tight braids at the sides of her head. She wears a plaid blanket with a fringe about her shoulders over her knee-length dress. The baby is slung in the blanket on her back. The woman is sitting on a wooden box holding a pottery ladle in her right hand over a large pottery jar or water jug. A window is in the wall directly over her head. Several household items such as a jug and a pole sit under or near a sheltered area in the background at right.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
22 x 17 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m16338
USC-1-1-1-13518 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-3741
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m16338
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-3741.jpg
Subject
Hopi Indians
Indians--Hopi
Indians of North America
Dwellings
Clothing and dress
Children
Tribal areas
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
USA
Source
1-168- [Microfiche number]
3741 [Accession number]
CHS-3741 [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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