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Description
Photograph of an Agua Caliente Indian woman, Mercedes Nolasquez, basket maker, ca.1900. She is sitting on the ground on an animal pelt with a basket shaped like a shallow bowl with a checkered pattern on her lap. The basket is incomplete as a several long straws stick out of the rim. An awl lays in the basket. A larger basket filled with grain or beans sits at left. Another smaller basket sits at right. She is wearing a light-colored shirt and a plaid skirt. Behind her is the intertwined branch wall of a dwelling[?].
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w 22 x 17 cm. glass plate negatives photographs
Indians of North America Women Clothing and dress Basket makers Mission Indians Basketry Agua Caliente (Warner's Ranch)--Mission Indians--Basketry Tribal areas
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
Agua Caliente California USA
Source
1-162-; 1-172- [Microfiche number] 3830 [Accession number] CHS-3830 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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