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 Hopi Indian woman whitewashing her adobe house while two children play nearby, ca.1900. Both small children are naked but covered in whitewash. The woman's back is to the camera at her left is a square wooden stool. A pot of whitewash sits to her right. A window and door in the house are in the wall she is whitewashing. Two people peer out of the window at the children. The rafters of the roof stick out above.
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : photonegatives, photoprint, b&w 26 x 21 cm., 13 x 10 cm., 22 x 17 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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