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The white rabbit skin

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Call NumberX-32516CreatorHillers, John K., 1843-1925Date1874SummaryTwo Native American (Paiute) girls and a boy, Kaibab Plateau, northern Arizona. The young women wear thin headbands and heavily fringed buckskin dresses. The young man wears a fringed shirt with beaded leggings and a feather headdress; he holds a white rabbit skin over his knee.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--Arizona--19th centuryKaibab Plateau (Ariz.)--19th centuryWomen--Arizona--19th centuryCollectionPhotographs - Western HistoryRelated MaterialImage File: ZZR710032516Type 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 F28168. Label on back of print: "Indians of the Colorado Valley. No. 294. 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. R7100325168DonorGoodspeed.

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