Image: Yokut Indian woman basket maker, Tule River Reservation near Porterville, California, ca.1900 (CHS-3803)
Description: Yokut Indian woman basket maker, Tule River Reservation near Porterville, California, ca.1900 Photograph of a Yokut Indian woman basket maker, Tule River Reservation near Porterville, California, ca.1900. She sits on a half-filled sack on the ground outside working on a large shallow basket with a human figure pattern in her lap. Basket making supplies sit in a large round basket in front of her. A sheaf of straws lays at her side.
Call number: CHS-3803
Photographer: James, George Wharton
Filename: CHS-3803
Coverage date: circa 1900
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Tule River Reservation; Porterville
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 3803
Microfiche number: 1-162-; 1-185-
Archival file: chs_Volume95/CHS-3803.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): 3 photographs : photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 13 x 10 cm., 21 x 26 cm., 21 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): negatives (photographic); photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Legacy record ID: chs-m16385; USC-1-1-1-14008
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Subject (file heading): Indians -- Yokut
Subject (lcsh): Indians of North America; Yokuts Indians; Women; Basket makers
Subject: Yokut Indians -- Basketry
Usage Terms: Public domain
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