California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Hopi Indian weaver making a ceremonial kilt in Oraibi, Arizona, ca.1900

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Hopi Indian weaver making a ceremonial kilt in Oraibi, Arizona, ca.1900

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Photograph of a Hopi Indian weaver making a ceremonial kilt in Oraibi, Arizona, ca.1900. There is a woman sitting on the floor at center in front of a loom hung from the ceiling. The right side of another person is visible in the doorway at left. The small room in which the weaver works is covered by tree branches and several blankets and furs that are strewn across the floor. There are pots in the back right corner.

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Title Hopi Indian weaver making a ceremonial kilt in Oraibi, Arizona, ca.1900

Subject Clothing and dress (lcsh), Dwellings (lcsh), Hopi Indians (lcsh), Indians -- Hopi -- General (file heading), Indians of North America (lcsh), tribal areas (adlf), Weaving (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Arizona (states), Navajo (counties), Oraibi (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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 James, G.W. (photographer)

Contributor Southwest Native American Photograph Collection (provenance)

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-m19131

Identifier 9951 (accession number), CHS-9951 (call number), CHS-9951 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19044 (legacy record id), chs-m19131 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13518 (legacy record id), 1-163- (microfiche number), 1-168- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19044

Unique identifier UC137242

Legacy Identifier CHS-9951.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 14.0 in × 17.5 in at 300dpi
35.5 cm × 44.5 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

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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