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Call NumberX-32504CreatorHillers, John K., 1843-1925Date1874SummaryA Native American (Paiute) woman breast-feeds a child, another child stands behind her, Kaibab Plateau, northern Arizona. She wears a fringed, buckskin dress with a beaded border and a twined basket hat. A cradleboard leans against a wikiup, a small hut of branches. Beside her is a pile of fur hides.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 1/2 in.)Born-Digital or AnalogAnalogSubjectIndians of North America--Arizona--19th centurySouthern Paiute Indians--Clothing and dress--Arizona--19th centuryKaibab Plateau (Ariz.)Breast feeding--Arizona--19th centuryChildren--Arizona--19th centuryWomen--Arizona--19th centuryCollectionPhotographs - Western HistoryRelated MaterialImage File: ZZR710032504Type 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 F30649. Label on print: "Indians of the Colorado Valley. No. 23. 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. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by J. W. Powell, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington."; Title from label on back of print. Vintage photographic print. R7100325045DonorGoodspeed.

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