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Title
View of a stack of Pima Indian pottery, ca.1884
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1884
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 view of a stack of Pima Indian pottery, ca.1884. Around twenty pots are stacked in a pyramidal formation at center. Four of the pots are shaped like people with smaller pots on their heads. All of the pots are dark in color, and have small flared openings on top. They are resting on a low platform covered with a patterned rug. The wall behind them is decorated with the image of a palm tree at left.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photoprints, b&w
26 x 21 cm., 13 x 18 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m17766
USC-1-1-1-13956 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-11792
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17766
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-11792.jpg
Subject
Indians--Pima
Indians of North America
Pima Indians
Pottery
Time Period
circa 1884
Place
USA
Source
1-175- [Microfiche number]
11792 [Accession number]
CHS-11792 [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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