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 Walapai Indian papoose with mother looking on, Hackbury, Arizona, ca.1900. The baby, in swaddling clothes, is strapped vertically to the papoose board which hangs on a wall covered with two Indian blankets -- both striped.The baby's feet dangle below the swaddling. The mother(?) sitting in the right foreground is turned to the baby. The mother's face is not visible. The mother is wearing a striped button-up blouse under a patterned shawl or blanket around her shoulders. Her dark hair hangs to her shoulders.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w 22 x 17 cm. glass plate negatives photographic prints photographs
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