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Description
Photograph of two young Walapai Indian mothers (squaws) with their children slung on their backs, Hackbury, Arizona, ca.1900. They stand in front of two Indian blankets hung on a wooden wall -- one blanket with a cross pattern, the other with a diamond and stripe pattern -- each with the child. They are wearing a long dresses under a patterned shawls or blankets around their shoulders. The woman on the left wears a scarf over her dark hair exposing only her cropped bangs the woman on the right wears her hair free which hangs to just above her shoulders, also with cropped bangs. The child on the left may be a little boy while the one on the right may be a little girl. The women stand in profile.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w 22 x 17 cm. glass plate negatives photographic prints photographs
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