Title supplied by cataloger. Charles Fletcher Lummis founded the Southwest Museum in 1907. The museum moved from Downtown Los Angeles to its current location at 234 Museum Drive in Mt. Washington in 1914, and has been there ever since. The 1914 building was designed by architects Sumner P. Hunt and Silas Reese Burns. It became part of the Autry National Center in 2004. The building is registered on the National Register of Historic Places #92001270. A young woman wearing a buckskin dress smiles as she sits on a trunk, holding a Native American basket in her lap. She is sitting outside the Southwest Museum. Caption on the back of the photograph reads: "The main staple of the diet of the California Indians was acron mush, prepared by leaching the tanic acid out of the acorns by crushing and boiling them in water-tight baskets".
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Southwest Museum of the American Indian Native Americans--Museums--California--Los Angeles Indian baskets--North America Museums--California--Los Angeles Historic sites--California--Los Angeles Lummis, Charles Fletcher,1859-1928 Burns, Silas Reese Hunt, Sumner P
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