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 Hopi Indian blind man winding yarn, ca.1900. The scrawny man appears to be in his sixties or older. His grey hair is tousled. His sparse mustache and beard are ungroomed. He holds a ball of yarn in one hand, while his other hand, he uses to grab hold of the yarn wrapped from his right foot to his left knee. He is sitting on the ground on a blanket or rug. He wears only a loincloth.
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w 26 x 21 cm., 25 x 20 cm. glass plate negatives photographic prints photographs
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