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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Washoe Indian woman carrying her papoose on her back, ca.1900
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Washoe Indian woman carrying her papoose on her back, ca.1900
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Photograph of a Washoe Indian woman carrying her papoose on her back, ca.1900. The woman is wearing a leather(?) tunic and skirt. The ends of the tunic and skirt are cut into short strips. Her outfit is decorated with hand(?) drawings. Drawings are visible on her face and hand. The papoose is snuggled in its (his/her?) papoose basket. The basket is attached to the cradle by thin ropes. The woman carries the cradle on her back with the supporting rope strapped around her head just above the forehead. Just above the baby's head is a screen made of wicker to protect the baby from the sun and possibly rain.; "American Indian people of the Great Basin region of North America, who made their home around Lake Tahoe just east of the Sierra Nevada. Their peak numerical strength before contact with whites may have been 1,500, whereas today perhaps fewer than 600 remain in the original Washo territory. Linguistically isolated from the other Great Basin peoples, they have been placed in the Hokan stock. The Washo were fishermen, hunters of small mammals, and gatherers of pine nuts, acorns, and various roots and berries. They depended on deer and antelope for some of their dress and for their cone-shaped dwellings. They were especially noted for their superb basketry." -- Encyclopedia Britannica.
Asset Metadata
Title
Washoe Indian woman carrying her papoose on her back, ca.1900
Subject
Indians -- Washoe
(file heading),
Indians of North America
(lcsh),
Infants
(lcsh),
tribal areas
(adlf),
Washoe Indians
(subject),
Washoe Indians
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1900
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 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.
Access Conditions
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17529
Identifier
5927 (
accession number
), CHS-5927 (
call number
), CHS-5927 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-17521 (
legacy record id
), chs-m17529 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14005 (
legacy record id
), 1-157- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
17521
Unique identifier
UC142906
Legacy Identifier
CHS-5927.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
13.0 in × 16.3 in at 300dpi
33.0 cm × 41.4 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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