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Description
Photograph of a young Hopi Indian woman grinding corn for flour, ca.1900. She is kneeling behind a wooden trough inside of which lay grinding stones. She leans on on the trough with her head down and cast in shadow. She is inside. A pile of husks sit to her left. Clusters of corn cobs hang drying from the ceiling.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprints, b&w 26 x 21 cm., 21 x 16 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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