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The water carriers

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Call NumberX-32505CreatorHillers, John K., 1843-1925Date1874SummaryTwo young Native American (Paiute) women and a girl on the Kaibab Plateau, northern Arizona; the women carry basket water vessels on their backs by a strap that is attached to the handles and placed on their heads. They wear belted, fringed buckskin dresses.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 centurySouthern Paiute Indians--Women--Arizona--19th centuryKaibab Plateau (Ariz.)--19th centuryGirls--Arizona--19th centuryWater carriers--Arizona--19th centuryWomen--Arizona--19th centuryCollectionPhotographs - Western HistoryRelated MaterialImage File: ZZR710032505Type 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. ThompsonNotesCondition: Scratches on print. Formerly F28692. Label on print: "Indians of the Colorado Valley. No. 21. 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. R7100325053

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