California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Havasupai Indian woman, Chickapanagie's wife, baking "Meala" bread, ca.1900

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Havasupai Indian woman, Chickapanagie's wife, baking "Meala" bread, ca.1900

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Photograph of a Havasupai Indian woman, Chickapanagie's wife, baking "Meala" bread, ca.1900. The traditional bread is made from corn meal wrapped in husks and then baked in hot coals. She kneals on a slight slope wrapped in a brightly patterned cloth or blanket with her back to the camera. A large pan holds the heat of the coals in a depression in the ground in front of her.A forest is visible in the background.

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Title Havasupai Indian woman, Chickapanagie's wife, baking "Meala" bread, ca.1900

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

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1900

Subject Clothing and dress (lcsh), Cookery (lcsh), Havasupai Indians (subject), Havasupai Indians (lcsh), Indians -- Havasupai (file heading), Indians of North America (lcsh), woods (adlf)

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)

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-m15995

Identifier 3358 (accession number), CHS-3358 (call number), CHS-3358 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-14922 (legacy record id), chs-m15995 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13517 (legacy record id), 1-167- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 14922

Unique identifier UC121005

Legacy Identifier CHS-3358.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.9 in × 14.3 in at 300dpi
48.0 cm × 36.5 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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