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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a Coahuilla Indian woman basket maker at Torres, east of Palm Springs, ca.1903. She is sitting on a blanket with her legs underneath her. She has a small unfinished basked grasped in her hands in her lap. She is wearing a patterned shirt, a scarf tied about her head, and a dark skirt . Basket making supplies and implements sit in front of her on the blanket. Behind her the thatched wall of the structure, a remada, in which she is sitting is visible. The sun shines in through small gaps in the wall and ceiling.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm. glass plate negatives photographs
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