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Text describing a photograph of an Indian grinding mill, near Saddle Peak, Los Angeles, 1929

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Title: Text describing a photograph of an Indian grinding mill, near Saddle Peak, Los Angeles, 1929
Contributor: University of California, Los Angeles. -- Library. -- Dept. of Special Collections (repository)
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Bartlett (Adelbert) Papers
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Description: Typewritten text reads: GRIST-MILL OF STONE AGE. Among the oak trees in Las Flores Canyon in the Malibu region of Southern California, on the site of an ancient Indian settlement, is a great flat piece of sandstone, seven feet in diameter, and pitted by circular holes worn out by the stone pestles of the grinders. Here the Indian women ground meal from acorns.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Type: image
Format: 1 p.
Identifier: edu.ucla.library.specialCollections.bartlett:335
uclamss_1300_0324i
0324i
ark:/21198/zz002bdggm
Language: English
Subject: Grinding stones
Saddle Peak (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Indians of North America -- Antiquities
Place: California
Los Angeles
Relation: Adelbert Bartlett Papers. Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA
ark:/21198/zz002bdgf3 (negative)

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