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Title
Navajo Indian woman blanket maker with blankets and loom, ca.1901-1903
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
James, George Wharton
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1901/1903
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a Navajo Indian woman blanket maker with blankets and loom, ca.1901-1903. She kneels to the right of the partially completed blanket on the loom. She wears a patterned shirt, several beaded necklaces, and a blanket over her lap. She is inside an adobe dwelling.
Type
image
Format
4 photographs : glass photonegatives, photoprints, b&w
22 x 17 cm., 26 x 21 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m15914
USC-1-1-1-13946 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-2336...-3261
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m15914
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-2336.jpg
Subject
Indians--Navajo
Indians of North America
Navajo Indians
Women
Clothing and dress
Dwellings
Weaving
Tribal areas
Time Period
circa 1901/1903
Place
Arizona
USA
deserts: Painted Desert
Source
1-163-; 1-174- [Microfiche number]
3261; 2336 [Accession number]
CHS-3261; CHS-2336 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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