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Title
Old Mojave Indian woman, ca.1900
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
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 an old Mojave Indian woman, ca.1900. She is sitting on the ground with her legs stretched out in front of her, her left hand on her left knee. She is wearing a brightly patterned cloth around her shoulders, a print shirt, print dress, and sandals. Her grey hair forms a triangle around her face. Behind her a square post and a smaller round post stick up out of the dry ground. Part of a wagon wheel is visible at right.
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w
22 x 17 cm., 21 x 16 cm.
glass plate negatives
portraits
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m16033
USC-1-1-1-13931 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-3403
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m16033
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-3403.jpg
Subject
Indians--Mojave
Indians of North America
Mohave Indians
Clothing and dress
Women
Mojave Indians
Indians
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
USA
Source
1-173- [Microfiche number]
3403 [Accession number]
CHS-3403 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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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