Coahuilla Indian woman at Torres, east of Palm Springs, ca.1903

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Photograph of a Coahuilla Indian woman basket maker at Torres, east of Palm Springs, ca.1903. She is sitting on a blanket with her legs underneath her. She has a small unfinished basked grasped in her hands in her lap. She is wearing a patterned shirt, a scarf tied about her head, and a dark skirt . Basket making supplies and implements sit in front of her on the blanket. Behind her the thatched wall of the structure, a remada, in which she is sitting is visible. The sun shines in through small gaps in the wall and ceiling.

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Title Coahuilla Indian woman at Torres, east of Palm Springs, ca.1903

Subject Indian basket makers (lcsh), Indians (subject), Indians of North America (lcsh), Mission Indians (subject), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), Palm Springs -- Coahuilla, Mission Indians (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Palm Springs (city or populated place), Torres (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1902/1904

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1902/1904

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-m15391

Identifier 2295 (accession number), CHS-2295 (call number), CHS-2295 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-14688 (legacy record id), chs-m15391 (legacy record id), 1-162- (microfiche number), 1-172- (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 14688

Unique identifier UC143735

Legacy Identifier CHS-2295.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.6 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
42.3 cm × 33.9 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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