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 portrait of a Walapai Indian ex-school girl with painted face, Hackbury, Arizona, ca.1900. From the waist up. Behind her hang two Indian blankets, both striped. She is wearing a shawl or blanket edged with stripes about her upper arms over a patterned dress. Her dark hair which falls to her shoulders is parted in the middle and cropped short at the bangs. She is turned slightly to her right. Indian girls, while attending the Government School, were not allowed to paint their faces. This former school girl married, and once again began to dab her face with paint.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w 22 x 17 cm. glass plate negatives photographic prints photographs
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