California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Dance at the Fiesta de San Esteban (Saint Stephen), Acoma Pueblo, ca.1900

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Dance at the Fiesta de San Esteban (Saint Stephen), Acoma Pueblo, ca.1900

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Photograph of a dance at the Fiesta de San Esteban (Saint Stephen), Acoma Pueblo, ca.1900. The Acoma Indians are wearing traditional garments including elaborate headpieces. They carry goards and feathers in their hands as they dance. The building behind the dancers is made of adobe and wood with exposed rafter tails, while two ladders lean against it. A large tree is visible at left. Several people can be seen observing the dance from the roof.

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Title Dance at the Fiesta de San Esteban (Saint Stephen), Acoma Pueblo, ca.1900

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Acoma Pueblo (city or populated place), New Mexico (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 4 photographs : transparency, photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm., 22 x 17 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat), transparencies (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, George Wharton (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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m16848

Identifier 4512 (accession number), CHS-4512 (call number), CHS-4512 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-16770 (legacy record id), chs-m16848 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13461 (legacy record id), 1-160-14 (microfiche number), USC (project), James-857 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 16770

Unique identifier UC141583

Legacy Identifier CHS-4512.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.2 in at 300dpi
43.2 cm × 33.6 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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