Native American Photographs

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  • Tags: Women

"A group of Mariposa belles"

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Stereograph. Group portrait of five Native American women of California, all wearing long-sleeved dresses, three wearing woven headbands.

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"An-ti-naints, Pu-tu-siv and Wi-chut"

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Stereograph. Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Group portrait of three young Nu-a-gun-tit women seen standing on top of a piece of buckskin cloth.

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"An-ti-naints, Pu-tu-siv and Wi-chuts, sitting."

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Stereograph. Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Group portrait of three young Nu-a-gun-tit women seen sitting on the ground.

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"At the Rancherio, Mendocino County, California"

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Stereograph. Image of a young Native American infant seen playing with a basket or cradleboard. A group of women are seen sitting in the background.

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"Domestic scene"

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Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Image of a family of Kai-Vav-It Indians gathered under a cedar tree. One woman holds up her baby who is strapped to a cradleboard.

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"Fresno Squaws and papoose"

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Stereograph. Image of two Native American women of California sitting on the ground wearing long-sleeved dresses. The woman at right holds a sleeping baby in a cradleboard.

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"Group of women in full dress."

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Stereograph. Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Photograph of a group of nine Kai-Vav-It women and girls.

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"Jack’s family—Lizzy (young wife), Mary (his sister), old wife & daughter"

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Albumen print. Portrait of three Modoc women and a young Modoc girl. The two younger women sit to the left, and the older woman sits and holds her daughter, who stands in front of her.

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"Ka-ni."

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Stereograph. Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Portrait of Nu-a-gun-tit woman Ka-ni wearing a fringed skirt and covering her breasts with her proper right arm.

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"Kai-ar."

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Stereograph. Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Portrait of Nu-a-gun-tit woman Kai-ar wearing buckskin clothing and standing near bushes and tall grass.

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