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 Indian penitents, ca.1888. Penitents and observers line up near a rocky hill. The penitents, dressed in bright color pants and naked from the waste up, are either carrying large wooden crucifixes or stand bowing their heads in repentance. Observers are wearing dark colored clothes with the exception of the children who are wearing bright color clothes. Several of the observers are holding up pictures (drawings or paintings, perhaps of religious figures?). Trees dot the hilly landscape in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. photographic prints photographs
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