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 two Zuni Indian men making wampum, ca.1900. Both men are wearing buttoned up collar shirts and have turban-like headbands wrapped around their heads. The man on the left is measuring a piece of wood, while the man on the right is using a primitive drilling tool to drill into a small object situated on top of a wooden crate. The man on the right is wearing three necklaces of wampum. The man on the left is laying down silver(?) and preparing it for his associate to drill. Around them lie slabs of stones(?).
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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