California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Pima Indian woman, Si-Rup, pounding mesquite beans in a wooden mortar, Pima, Arizona, 1904

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Pima Indian woman, Si-Rup, pounding mesquite beans in a wooden mortar, Pima, Arizona, 1904

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Photograph of a Pima Indian woman, Si-Rup, pounding mesquite beans for bread in a wooden mortar, Pima, Arizona, 1904. She wears a light skirt and shirt, and is barefoot. She sits on the ground with the mortar at her knees and the stone pestle held in her clasped hands. She is in the shade of a dwelling near a rough wood post. A field is visible behind her.

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Title Pima Indian woman, Si-Rup, pounding mesquite beans in a wooden mortar, Pima, Arizona, 1904

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1904

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Arizona (states), Pima (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1904

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 22 x 17 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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)

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-m16220

Identifier 3606 (accession number), CHS-3606 (call number), CHS-3606 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-16159 (legacy record id), chs-m16220 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13956 (legacy record id), 1-175- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 16159

Unique identifier UC140679

Legacy Identifier CHS-3606.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 14.2 in × 18.7 in at 300dpi
36.3 cm × 47.6 cm at 300dpi

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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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