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Title
Portrait of an Apache Indian warrior aiming a gun, ca.1884
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1884
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
Photographic portrait of an Apache Indian warrior aiming a gun, ca.1884. The man is kneeling at center and aiming his Winchester rifle to the left. He is wearing a tunic with vertical stripes, a pair of light-colored pants, tall leather moccasins, and has a bandanna around his head. He has long dark hair that disappears behind his shoulders. There is a Colt revolver leaning on his knee at right, and the ground on which he is kneeling is covered in dry brush.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photoprints, b&w
18 x 13 cm., 26 x 21 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m13324
USC-1-1-1-13477 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-11789
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m13324
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-11789.jpg
Subject
Apache Indians
Indians--Apache
Indians of North America
Men
Tribal areas
Time Period
circa 1884
Place
USA
Source
11789 [Accession number]
CHS-11789 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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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