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Title
Exterior view of a Paiute Indian hut near Bishop in Inyo County, ca.1905
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1905
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 an exterior view of a Paiute Indian hut near Bishop in Inyo County, ca.1905. The hut is crudely constructed of small vertical tree branches held together by larger horizontal branches. There is a stone chimney at left and a narrow open doorway at center. The roof is covered in straw. There is an Indian man sitting in front of the building at center and he is wearing a hat, long-sleeved shirt, and pants with the bottoms rolled up. He has a beard and a mustache and his hands are resting in his lap.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm., 17 x 13 cm.
transparencies
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m17760
USC-1-1-1-13951 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-11193
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17760
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-11193.jpg
Subject
Indians--Paiute
Indians of North America
Paiute Indians
Dwellings
Housing areas
Time Period
circa 1905
Place
Bishop
California
Inyo County
USA
Source
1-176- [Microfiche number]
11193 [Accession number]
CHS-11193 [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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