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
Photograph of an Indian religious shrine, on Old Zuni Mesa, ca.1898. Several wooden totems jut from dirt floor. The totem on the right, with a stick protruding from the center, shows hints of human features such as a long chin, flat nose and eyes. The pencil-shaped totem on the left has a hole in its center. Several more totems are bunched between the left and right totems. Dozens more lay flat on the dirt ground. The landscape consists of shrubs and bushes.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm., 20 x 25 cm. glass plate negatives photographic prints photographs
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