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Title: Native American grinding hole
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Hole used by prehistoric Indians for grinding seeds and acorns, in the same cave as shown in WPA 3053 4x5. Photo dated: December 10, 1937.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00065536
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA B-4249 4x5
CARL0000070289
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/3200
Subject: Native Americans--California
Metates--California
Acorns as food--California
Caves--California
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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