Image / A Cahuilla woman using a low stone mortar and pestle (or metate)

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Title: A Cahuilla woman using a low stone mortar and pestle (or metate)
Creator: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Possibly a woman called Maria Los Angeles. She is seated outside a brush house, with a dog next to her.
Title supplied by cataloger. Print stamped on back "From G. Wharton James, P. O. Box 163, Pasadena, Cal." See also photograph of same woman: photCL Pierce (1736), identified as "Cahuilla - Maria Los Angeles - Basketmaker - Mission Indian."
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 stereograph; 9 x 18 cm (3 1/2 x 7 in.)
Identifier: photCL 294
442390
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/9499
Subject: Cahuilla Indians
Indians of North America--California
Indians of North America--Dwellings
Photographs. (aat)
Stereographs. (aat)
Place: Cahuilla Reservation (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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