Exterior view of a Paiute Indian hut near Bishop in Inyo County, ca.1905

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Photograph of an exterior view of a Paiute Indian hut near Bishop in Inyo County, ca.1905. The hut is crudely constructed of small vertical tree branches held together by larger horizontal branches. There is a stone chimney at left and a narrow open doorway at center. The roof is covered in straw. There is an Indian man sitting in front of the building at center and he is wearing a hat, long-sleeved shirt, and pants with the bottoms rolled up. He has a beard and a mustache and his hands are resting in his lap.

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Title Exterior view of a Paiute Indian hut near Bishop in Inyo County, ca.1905

Subject Dwellings (lcsh), housing areas (adlf), Indians -- Paiute (file heading), Indians of North America (lcsh), Paiute Indians (subject), Paiute Indians (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Bishop (city or populated place), California (states), Inyo County (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1905

Type images

Format 2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm., 17 x 13 cm. (aacr2), 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 1905

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-m17760

Identifier 11193 (accession number), CHS-11193 (call number), CHS-11193 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17746 (legacy record id), chs-m17760 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13951 (legacy record id), 1-176- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17746

Unique identifier UC142414

Legacy Identifier CHS-11193.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.5 in × 18.6 in at 300dpi
34.2 cm × 47.3 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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