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Title
"Catching the Bread" part of the ceremony of the Fiesta de San Esteban (Saint Stephen), Acoma Pueblo, ca.1900
Creator
James, George Wharton
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
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 the "Catching the Bread" part of the ceremony of the Fiesta de San Esteban (Saint Stephen), Acoma Pueblo, ca.1900. A crowd of more than a hundred people -- mostly men, but some women and children as well -- stand on the rocky ground before an adobe building. Some of them stretch their arms forward. Three horses stand behnd the crowd near the building wall. A large tree grows at left.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m16850
USC-1-1-1-13461 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-4514
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m16850
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-4514.jpg
Subject
Acoma Indians
Indians--Acoma
Indians of North America
Tribal areas
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
Acoma Pueblo
New Mexico
USA
Source
1-160-16 [Microfiche number]
4514 [Accession number]
CHS-4514 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: James-859 [Identifying number]
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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