California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Pima Indian woman, To-Mas-sa, the wife of Ho-Dutch, carrying a pottery jar on her head enroute to planting corn, ca.1900

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Pima Indian woman, To-Mas-sa, the wife of Ho-Dutch, carrying a pottery jar on her head enroute to planting corn, ca.1900

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Photograph of a Pima Indian woman, To-Mas-sa, the wife of Ho-Dutch, carrying a pottery jar on her head en route to planting corn, ca.1900. The jar is balanced on a ring on top of her head. She carries a shovel in her left hand. A woven mat or container(?) sits at her feet. She is wearing a long light dress and is barefoot. Brush is visible in the desert behind her.

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Title Pima Indian woman, To-Mas-sa, the wife of Ho-Dutch, carrying a pottery jar on her head enroute to planting corn, ca.1900

Subject Indians -- Pima (file heading), Indians of North America (lcsh), Pima Indians (subject), Pima Indians (lcsh), Pottery (lcsh), tribal areas (adlf), Women (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 22 x 17 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1900

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m16245

Identifier 3635 (accession number), CHS-3635 (call number), CHS-3635 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-16184 (legacy record id), chs-m16245 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13956 (legacy record id), 1-175- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 16184

Unique identifier UC140831

Legacy Identifier CHS-3635.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.1 in × 17.1 in at 300dpi
33.3 cm × 43.4 cm at 300dpi

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Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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