Image: Two young Walapai Indian mothers with their children on their backs, Hackbury, Arizona, ca.1900 (CHS-3176)

Description: Two young Walapai Indian mothers with their children on their backs, Hackbury, Arizona, ca.1900 Photograph of two young Walapai Indian mothers (squaws) with their children slung on their backs, Hackbury, Arizona, ca.1900. They stand in front of two Indian blankets hung on a wooden wall -- one blanket with a cross pattern, the other with a diamond and stripe pattern -- each with the child. They are wearing a long dresses under a patterned shawls or blankets around their shoulders. The woman on the left wears a scarf over her dark hair exposing only her cropped bangs; the woman on the right wears her hair free which hangs to just above her shoulders, also with cropped bangs. The child on the left may be a little boy; while the one on the right may be a little girl. The women stand in profile. Call number: CHS-3176 Photographer: Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 Filename: CHS-3176 Coverage date: circa 1900 Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 Format: glass plate negatives Type: images Geographic subject (city or populated place): Hackbury Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections Accession number: 3176 Microfiche number: 1-183- Archival file: chs_Volume93/CHS-3176.tiff Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Geographic subject (country): USA Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 22 x 17 cm. Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Subject (adlf): tribal areas Project: USC 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 Geographic subject (state): Arizona Legacy record ID: chs-m15839; USC-1-1-1-13998 Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343. Subject (file heading): Indians -- Walapai Subject (lcsh): Women; Walapai Indians; Children; Indians of North America Subject: Walapai Indians
Title: Two young Walapai Indian mothers with their children on their backs, Hackbury, Arizona, ca.1900 (CHS-3176)
Credit: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/14878
Author: Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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