Agua Caliente Indian woman, Mercedes Nolasquez, basket maker, ca.1900

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Photograph of an Agua Caliente Indian woman, Mercedes Nolasquez, basket maker, ca.1900. She is sitting on the ground on an animal pelt with a basket shaped like a shallow bowl with a checkered pattern on her lap. The basket is incomplete as a several long straws stick out of the rim. An awl lays in the basket. A larger basket filled with grain or beans sits at left. Another smaller basket sits at right. She is wearing a light-colored shirt and a plaid skirt. Behind her is the intertwined branch wall of a dwelling[?].

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Title Agua Caliente Indian woman, Mercedes Nolasquez, basket maker, ca.1900

Creator James, George Wharton (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1900

Subject Agua Caliente (Warner's Ranch) -- Mission Indians -- Basketry (subject), Basket makers (lcsh), Basketry (subject), Clothing and dress (lcsh), Indians of North America (lcsh), Mission Indians (subject), tribal areas (adlf), Women (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Agua Caliente (city or populated place), California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 22 x 17 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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)

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-m16407

Identifier 3830 (accession number), CHS-3830 (call number), CHS-3830 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-16346 (legacy record id), chs-m16407 (legacy record id), 1-162- (microfiche number), 1-172- (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 16346

Unique identifier UC141010

Legacy Identifier CHS-3830.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 12.9 in × 16.9 in at 300dpi
32.8 cm × 43.1 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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