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Description
Photographic portrait of a Paiute Indian papoose with fingers in its mouth, ca.1900. The papoose is snugly fitted into its (his/her?) papoose basket and strapped to a cradle (or carryall?). The papoose has a finger in its mouth. The cradle is placed in an upright position. On a dark background. "[The Paiute], also spelled PIUTE, [are] either of two distinct American Indian groups that speak languages of the Numic (formerly called Plateau Shoshonean) group of the Uto-Aztecan family. The Southern Paiute, who speak Ute, at one time occupied southern Utah, northwestern Arizona, southern Nevada, and southeastern California, the last group being known as the Chemehuevi. Although encroached upon and directed into reservations by the U.S. government in the 19th century, the Southern Paiute had comparatively little friction with whites and many stayed scattered in the territories, working on the ranches of whites or remaining on the fringes of white settlements." -- Encyclopedia Britannica.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 26 x 21 cm. photographic prints photographs
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