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Title
The bones of cliff dwellers, ca.1900
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 a grouping of bones of cliff dwellers from the George Coles Collection, ca.1900. Pictured are 5 skulls, 2 coccyx (tail bone), 5 femurs (upper leg bone), 3 tibias (lower leg bone), 1 fibula (lower leg bone), 1 humerus (upper arm bone), 2 ulnas (lower arm bone). All the bones are sitting on a white (or light) sheet arranged on 4 tiers.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2548
USC-1-1-1-13506 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-2076
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2548
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-2076.jpg
Subject
Cliff Dwellers
Cliff-Dwellers
Indians of North America
Cliff-dwellers
Mummies
Tribal areas
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
USA
Source
2076 [Accession number]
CHS-2076 [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
Provenance
Dr. George Watson Cole Collection

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