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Title: Yurok Royalty Meet State Senator at Native American Museum
Creator: Sacramento Bee
Date Created and/or Issued: 1964/06/20
Contributing Institution: Center for Sacramento History
Collection: Center for Sacramento History Photo Collection
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Description: The photo caption printed in the Sacramento Bee on June 20, 1962 states: "Princess Ker-Newau, the last full blooded member of the Yurok Indian tribe of the lower Klamath River, points to members of her family in a picture in the Indian Museum at Sutters Fort. With her are State Senator Albert S. Rodda of Sacramento County and Princess So-Meson or Mrs. Lowana Brantner. The tribal costume worn by Princess Ker-Newau weighs 40 pounds and is 500 years old. That of Princess So-Meson is 125 years old. The picture on the wall is believed to have been taken in the 1870s."
Type: image
Identifier: 118175EA-5787-450B-AEEB-608576970880
1983/001/SBPM07342
Subject: American Indian Movement (AIM)
Native Americans
Brantner, Lowana
Princess Ker-Newau
Princess So-Meson
Rodda, Albert S

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