Image: Agua Caliente Indian woman, Mercedes Nolasquez, basket maker, ca.1900 (CHS-3830)

Description: Agua Caliente Indian woman, Mercedes Nolasquez, basket maker, ca.1900 Photograph of Mercedes Nolasquez, an Agua Caliente (Cahuilla-Cupeño) Indian basket maker, in California, ca.1900. She is sitting on the ground on an animal pelt with a basket shaped like a shallow bowl with a checkered pattern on her lap. The basket is incomplete as a several long straws stick out of the rim. An awl lays in the basket. A larger basket filled with grain or beans sits at left. Another smaller basket sits at right. She is wearing a light-colored shirt and a plaid skirt. Behind her is the intertwined branch wall of a dwelling[?]. Call number: CHS-3830 Photographer: George Wharton James Filename: CHS-3830 Coverage date: circa 1900 Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 Format: glass plate negatives Type: images Geographic subject (city or populated place): Agua Caliente Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections Accession number: 3830 Microfiche number: 1-162-; 1-172- Archival file: chs_Volume95/CHS-3830.tiff Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Geographic subject (country): USA Format (aacr2): 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 22 x 17 cm. Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Subject (adlf): tribal areas Repository email: specol@usc.edu Contributing entity: California Historical Society Date created: circa 1900 Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries Format (aat): photographs Geographic subject (state): California Legacy record ID: chs-m16407 Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343. Subject (lcsh): Indians of North America; Women; Clothing and dress; Basket makers Subject: Mission Indians; Basketry; Agua Caliente (Warner's Ranch) -- Mission Indians -- Basketry
Title: Agua Caliente Indian woman, Mercedes Nolasquez, basket maker, ca.1900 (CHS-3830)
Credit: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/16346
Author: James, George Wharton
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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