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Title: Samoan woman holding drum with young boy
Creator: Floorman, I. S
Date Created and/or Issued: 1894
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Restricted: slides not available for public viewing.
Description: 2009-0129.
Single slide in: Magic lantern slides : California Midwinter International Exposition, San Francisco, 1894, no. 21.
Shows Samoan woman in native dress, young boy beside her in jacket, knee-length pants and cap.
South Sea Islanders or Samoans performed tribal dances, native crafts for fair visitors.
Black paper mask, cover glass and taped edges.
Online image only, no photographic print available.
Restricted: slides not available for public viewing.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Projected graphic
Projected medium
Extent: 1 slide : lantern, b/w ; 3 1/4 x 4 in.
Identifier: (C)001393166CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-6523
Language: English
Subject: California Midwinter International Exposition, (1894 :. San Francisco, Calif.)--Photographs
Women, Samoan--California--San Francisco
Samoans--California--San Francisco
Exhibition buildings--California--San Francisco
Fairs--California--San Francisco
Hand drums
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Lantern slides
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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