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Title: 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
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Description: Photograph caption dated April 3, 1974 reads, "Fisheye lens captures Inscription Canyon on Mojave Desert near Barstow which appears to have been formed by volcanic lava flows. It is so named because its black basalt walls are inscribed with hundreds of ancient Indian petroglyphs, indicating it may have once been a village site."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00094575
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 88
CARL0005022849
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/28973
Subject: Petroglyphs--California, Southern
Deserts--California, Southern
Canyons--California, Southern
Native Americans--Antiquities
Mohave Indians--Antiquities
Inscription Canyon (San Bernardino County, Calif.)
Mojave Desert
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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