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Title
Paiute indian funeral, showing a dog in the foreground, 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 Paiute indian funeral, showing a dog in the foreground, ca.1900. About two dozen people and a dog sit (mostly women or children) or stand (mostly men or boys) near a newly dug grave. Two graves are marked with crosses. A wooden slat fence encloses at least two other graves marked with white crosses.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m14730
USC-1-1-1-13951 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-918
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m14730
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-918.jpg
Subject
Indians--Paiute
Paiute Indians
Indians of North America
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Indians
Religious facilities
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
USA
Source
1-176- [Microfiche number]
918 [Accession number]
CHS-918 [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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