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Title
Havasupai Indian boy with a captured raccoon, ca.1899
Creator
James, George Wharton
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1899
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 Havasupai Indian boy with a captured raccoon, ca.1899. He wears a hat with a wide brim, a cloth tied about his neck, a light shirt, dark trousers and shoes. He holds the chain of the trap which still grasps the tail of the raccoon standing at his feet. A saddle(?) and bedding(?) lay on the ground to his left. A canyon wall is visible behind him.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
22 x 17 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m16358
USC-1-1-1-13517 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-3773
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m16358
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-3773.jpg
Subject
Havasupai Indians
Indians--Havasupai
Indians of North America
Men
Children
Clothing and dress
Tribal areas
Time Period
circa 1899
Place
USA
Source
1-167- [Microfiche number]
3773 [Accession number]
CHS-3773 [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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