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Title: Navajos grinding corn
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Dubee, Myron
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: Grinding of corn--used heavily in the Navajo Indian diet--becomes a ceremonial occasion, as two Navajo girls reenact the age-old scene at the South East Indian Center in Huntington Park on May 21, 1974, helped by feather dancers (second row) and singers (third row), accompanying the occasion with the gourd.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00049755
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1763.
CARL0000054442
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/18301
Subject: South East Indian Center (Huntington Park, Calif.)
Native Americans--California--Huntington Park
Metates--California--Huntington Park
Navajo Indians--California--Huntington Park
Corn meal--California--Huntington Park
Rites and ceremonies--California--Huntington Park
Huntington Park (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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