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Title
Interior of a Hopi Indian house at Oraibi, Arizona, ca.1900
Creator
James, George Wharton
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
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
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Description
Photograph of the interior of a Hopi Indian house at Oraibi, Arizona, ca.1900. Dried maize and other food plants hang from the ceiling and walls. The rough hewn rafters are visible above. Pelts, containers, blankets and foodstuffs can be seen on the dirt floor near the walls. Sunlight streams in the open door at left.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m16917
USC-1-1-1-13519 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-4586
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m16917
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-4586.jpg
Subject
Indians--Hopi
Indians of North America
Hopi Indians
Dwellings
Tribal areas
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
Arizona
Navajo
Oraibi
USA
Source
1-168- [Microfiche number]
4586 [Accession number]
CHS-4586 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
plate no: James-41 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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