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Title: Native American grinding tools
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Mortars and pestles used by prehistoric Indians for grinding seeds and acorns, excavated from hills north of Lake Hughes on the property of Munz Ranch. Photo dated: November 16, 1937.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00065537
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA B-4216 4x5
CARL0000070288
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/3199
Subject: Native Americans--California--Angeles National Forest
Seeds as food--California--Angeles National Forest
Metates--California--Angeles National Forest
Acorns as food--California--Angeles National Forest
Tools, Prehistoric--California--Angeles National Forest
Munz Ranch (Angeles National Forest, Calif.)
Angeles National Forest (Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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