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Title
Portrait of a Havasupai Indian maiden, Uta's daughter, ca.1899
Creator
James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1899
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
Photograph of a portrait of a Havasupai Indian maiden, Uta's daughter, ca.1899. She wears a bright print cloth shawl over a print dress. Her dark hair is cropped to shoulder length and has bangs. She is sitting on a blanket on the ground with her left shoulder nearly leaning against a wall behind her. Her right arm lays across her right thigh.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm., 22 x 17 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m16366
USC-1-1-1-13517 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-3781
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m16366
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-3781.jpg
Subject
Indians--Havasupai
Indians of North America
Havasupai Indians
Clothing and dress
Tribal areas
Time Period
circa 1899
Place
USA
Source
1-167- [Microfiche number]
3781 [Accession number]
CHS-3781 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
George Wharton James. The Indians of the Painted Desert Region. Little Brown & Co., 1903
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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