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Won-sí-vu, or Young Antelope

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Call NumberX-32528CreatorHillers, John K., 1843-1925Date1874SummaryA young Native American (Paiute) woman, Wonsívu, stands on rocks on the Kaibab Plateau in northern Arizona. She wears a thin headband, and a heavily fringed buckskin dress with hooves tied on the fringe.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 centuryPaiute Indians--Arizona--19th centuryKaibab Plateau (Ariz.)--19th centuryWomen--Arizona--19th centuryWon-sí-vu.CollectionPhotographs - Western HistoryRelated MaterialImage File: ZZR710032528Type of MaterialFilm negativesPhotographic printsDigital 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 F30136. Label on back of print: "Indians of the Colorado Valley. No. 27. 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. R7100325281

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