Title supplied by cataloger.; Print contains four photographs. 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 wears a Native American beaded costume as she looks out, in classic American Indian pose, over the landscape at the Southwest Museum. She is demonstrating Native American dress for the Museum.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;12 x 10 cm. Photographic prints
Southwest Museum of the American Indian Native Americans--Museums--California--Los Angeles Native Americans--Clothing Indian beadwork--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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