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 a young Walapai Indian woman water carrier, Hackbury, Arizona, ca.1900. She walks to the right in front of two Indian blankets hung on a wooden wall -- one blanket with stripes, the other with a diamond and stripe pattern -- with a pottery water jug hung from a strap around her forehead to her back. She is wearing a long plaid dress under a patterned shawl or blanket around her shoulders. She wears a light scarf around her dark hair with cropped bangs. She is barefoot. The figure of another person is partially visible at right.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w 22 x 17 cm. glass plate negatives photographs
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