Funeral pyre of dead Mojave Indian chief, Sistuma, ca.1902

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Photograph of the funeral pyre of dead Mojave Indian chief, Sistuma, ca.1902. Smoke is beginning to rise from the stack of logs. A group of more than 30 people stand behind the fire. The landscape is flat far into the distance. A small hill is visible in the distant background at left.

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Title Funeral pyre of dead Mojave Indian chief, Sistuma, ca.1902

Subject Clothing and dress (lcsh), Funeral rites and ceremonies (lcsh), Indians -- Mojave (file heading), Indians of North America (lcsh), Mohave Indians (lcsh), tribal areas (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Arizona (states), deserts: Mojave Desert (geographic subject), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1902

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 1902

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-m15017

Identifier 1403 (accession number), CHS-1403 (call number), CHS-1403 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13771 (legacy record id), chs-m15017 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13931 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13771

Unique identifier UC143456

Legacy Identifier CHS-1403.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.1 in × 12.9 in at 300dpi
43.5 cm × 32.7 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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