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Title
Kamia Indians from the Capitan Grande Reservation making adobe bricks, San Diego, 1919
Contributor
Cornell, Ralph D.
Date Created and/or Issued
November 1919
1919-11
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Cornell (Ralph D.) papers
Rights Information
copyrighted
Copyright is owned by the UC Regents. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
Two Kamia Indian men kneel beside a mold for making an adobe brick in an open area. Beside them on the ground are about 34 drying adobe bricks. Behind them, three workers with a wheel barrow stand beside a ruined adobe wall of the Mission San Diego de Alcalá.
Handwritten on negative: El Capitan Indians making adobes - San Diego Mission, Nov. 1919.
Type
image
Identifier
uclamss_1411_1104
ark:/21198/zz002k891k
Language
English
Subject
Architectural conservation
Kamia Indians
Adobe brick
Missions (settlements)
San Diego Mission
Source
Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

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