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The basket maker

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Call NumberX-32487CreatorHillers, John K., 1843-1925Datecirca 1874SummaryAn unidentified, elderly, Native American (Paiute) woman weaves a basket in front of her wikiup, a small rounded hut made of branches with one open side, on the Kaibab Plateau, northern Arizona. Beside her is a fan shaped basket used for collecting seeds, and water vessels. She wears a cloth dress.Physical Description1 copy negative ; 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint on stereo card ; 11 x 16 cm (4 1/2 x 6 in.)Born-Digital or AnalogAnalogSubjectIndians of North America--Arizona--19th centuryPaiute baskets--Arizona--19th centurySouthern Paiute Indians--Arizona--19th centuryAged persons--Arizona--19th centuryBaskets--Arizona--19th centuryWomen--Arizona--19th centuryRelated MaterialImage File: ZZR710032487Type of MaterialFilm negativesPhotographic printsStereographsDigital Version Created FromIndians of the Colorado Valley. U-in-ta Utes; U. S. Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado River of the West / J. W. Powell and A. H. ThompsonNotesFormerly F30652. Labels on print: "Indians of the Colorado Valley. No. 13. Kaí-vav-its. A tribe of the Pai Utes, living on the Kai-bab Plateau, near the Grand Canon of the Colorado, in Northern Arizona." and "H. Ropes & Co., manufacturers of Patent "Combination" Stereoscopes, and publishers of stereoscopic views, 323 Broadway, New York."; Title from label on back of print. Vintage photographic print. R7100324879

CollectionPhotographs - Western History

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