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Title: Rocks used by Indians, Mojave Desert
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Howell, E. Bruce
Date Created and/or Issued: 1974
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated April 3, 1974 reads, "Not just ordinary boulders, these, according to Dr. Sylvia Broadbent, UC Riverside anthropology professor, who said there is no question that the slightly concave rock in upper half of photo was worn that way by ancient Indians grinding grain and marks on surface of rock in lower photo were also made by the same Indians."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00094585
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 88
CARL0005023520
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/29026
Subject: United States.--Bureau of Land Management.--California Desert District.--Northern and Eastern Mojave Planning Area
Petroglyphs--California, Southern
Mohave Indians--Antiquities
Native Americans--Antiquities
Deserts--California, Southern
Canyons--California, Southern
Mojave Desert
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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