Chemehuevi Indian mother holding her baby, ca.1900

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Photograph of a Chemehuevi Indian mother holding her baby on her lap, ca.1900. The baby is strapped on a papoose basket. The woman sits on the ground in front of a large woven container, a mesquite granary, with various cooking implements on top. She wears a long dotted dress and a kerchief around her head. Another child wearing a dress and holding a piece of paper[?] is sitting on the ground at right. An oblong stone sits on the ground on the other side of the woman. Shadows from off-camera people and objects are cast from left.

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Title Chemehuevi Indian mother holding her baby, ca.1900

Subject Chemehuevi Indians (lcsh), Children (lcsh), Indians -- Chemehuevi (file heading), Indians of North America (lcsh), tribal areas (adlf), Women (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 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)

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-m16052

Identifier 3428 (accession number), CHS-3428 (call number), CHS-3428 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-15993 (legacy record id), chs-m16052 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13493 (legacy record id), 1-164- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 15993

Unique identifier UC121042

Legacy Identifier CHS-3428.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.7 in × 14.2 in at 300dpi
47.6 cm × 36.1 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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