Image: Two Mojave Indian woman playing a game (fortune-telling with bones?), ca.1900 (CHS-3410)

Description: Two Mojave Indian woman playing a game (fortune-telling with bones?), ca.1900 Photograph of two Mojave Indian women playing a game (fortune-telling with bones?), ca.1900. They both kneel outside on the ground with their backs to an adobe wall. The one on the left, wearing a brightly patterned cloth around her shoulders, a plaid shirt, and a long dotted skirt, holds her arms, hands open, out to her sides. The one on the right, wearing a striped button-up shirt, and a long plain dress, grasps something with her left hand at her side. A cloth sits crumpled in her lap. Sticks are visible as reinforcement in the mud wall. Call number: CHS-3410 Photographer: Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 Filename: CHS-3410 Coverage date: circa 1900 Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 Type: images Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections Format: glass plate negatives Microfiche number: 1-173- Archival file: chs_Volume95/CHS-3410.tiff Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Geographic subject (country): USA Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm. Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Subject (adlf): buildings Project: USC Accession number: 3410 Repository email: specol@usc.edu Contributing entity: California Historical Society Date created: circa 1900 Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs Legacy record ID: chs-m16038; USC-1-1-1-13931 Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343. Subject (file heading): Indians -- Mojave Subject (lcsh): Indians of North America; Mohave Indians; Clothing and dress; Women; Games Subject: Mojave Indians
Title: Two Mojave Indian woman playing a game (fortune-telling with bones?), ca.1900 (CHS-3410)
Credit: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/15979
Author: Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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