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Title
Portrait of an elderly Cahuilla Mission Indian man with his eyes closed, 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
Photographic portrait of an elderly Cahuilla Mission Indian man with his eyes closed, ca.1900. The man is shown from the knees up, seated. He holds his hands in his lap and wears a button-down shirt and what appear to be denim pants. He has a salt-and-pepper colored beard, and darker hair. His eyes are closed.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m17855
USC-1-1-1-13920 [Legacy record ID]
chs-44161
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17855
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/chs-44161.jpg
Subject
Indians--Mission--Cahuilla
Indians of North America
Churches
Dwellings
Cahuilla Indians
Missions, Spanish
Mission Indians
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
USA
Source
44161 [Accession number]
CHS-44161 [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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