Sacred Grove Pueblo de Taos, ca.1900

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Photograph of the Sacred Grove Pueblo de Taos, ca.1900. Several people stand near the mouth of what appears to be a creek. In front of them is a small lake. Several other people stand near the water a few yards up the bank. Nearby them is a tent. Tall trees stand over the water from either side. Fields lead to the faint mountains in the background.; "Our people have a detailed oral history, which is not divulged due to religious privacy. Archeologists say that ancestors of the Taos Indians lived in this valley long before Columbus discovered America and hundreds of years before Europe emerged from the Dark Ages. Ancient ruins in the Taos Valley indicate our people lived here nearly 1000 years ago. The main part of the present buildings was most likely constructed between 1000 and 1450 A.D. The appeared much as they do today when the first Spanish explorers arrived in Northern New Mexico in 1540 and believed that the Pueblo was one of the fabled golden cities of Cibola. The two structures called Hlauuma (north house) and Hlaukwima (south house) are said to be of similar age. They are considered to be the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the USA." -- unknown author.

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Title Sacred Grove Pueblo de Taos, ca.1900

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place New Mexico (states), Taos (city or populated place), Taos (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), 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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17714

Identifier 6181 (accession number), CHS-6181 (call number), CHS-6181 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17702 (legacy record id), chs-m17714 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13993 (legacy record id), 1-182-11 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17702

Unique identifier UC142702

Legacy Identifier CHS-6181.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.1 in × 15.1 in at 300dpi
48.5 cm × 38.5 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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