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Title
Damage in Inscription Canyon, Mojave Desert
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Howell, E. Bruce
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
Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated April 3, 1974 reads, "Hand of UC Riverside anthropology professor, Sylvia Broadbent, points out recent chisel mark at bottom of a chipped out section of volcanic rock which had an ancient Indian carving on it. Such damage to antiquities, which is widespread on Mojave Desert is illegal. This damage was in Inscription Canyon near Barstow."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00094582
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 88
CARL0005023523
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/29028
Subject
Broadbent, Sylvia M
University of California, Riverside--Faculty
United States.--Bureau of Land Management.--California Desert District.--Northern and Eastern Mojave Planning Area
Petroglyphs--California, Southern
Mohave Indians--Antiquities
Native Americans--Antiquities
Deserts--California, Southern
Canyons--California, Southern
Anthropologists--United States
College teachers--California--Riverside
Inscription Canyon (San Bernardino County, Calif.)
Mojave Desert
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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