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Description
Photograph of an Indian woman demonstrating basket weaving, ca.1900. Attired in a Victorian dress with her hair pinned up, she sits on a chair inside looking down at her lap where she holds the pinwheel-like beginning of a basket as she gives instruction in its manufacture.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w 22 x 17 cm. glass plate negatives photographic prints photographs
Indians--Arts and crafts--Basketry Indians of North America Indians of North America--Industries Baskets Indians of North America--Basket making Tribal areas
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
USA
Source
1-162- [Microfiche number] 4800 [Accession number] CHS-4800 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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