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Archive Reference (shelfmark) L.R.298.b.2, 2 Language Not applicable Subject Farming

1. L.R.298.b.2, 2(40)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 2(40)
Title:
Saguaro Harvest — Pima. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View of two Pima with baskets beside a giant cactus in a desert landscape in Arizona. 'The fruit of the saguaro, or giant cactus, called hásen by the Pima, forms a very important source of the food supply of the tribes of southern Arizona. This fruit is of about the ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1907
Extent:
1 item

2. L.R.298.b.2, 2(49)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 2(49)
Title:
Gathering hánamh — Papago. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View of a Pima woman gathering fruit from a tall cactus. 'Hánamh is the Piman name for the cholla cactus and its fruit. The natives gather the fruit of this spiny plant in large quantities, and it forms a food of material importance to the several tribes living withi...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1907
Extent:
1 item

3. L.R.298.b.2, 2(55)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 2(55)
Title:
Resting in the harvest field — Qahátika. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of three Qahátika women, seated cross-legged in a field of cacti at the base of a rocky hill: 'About forty miles due south of the Pima reservation, in five small villages, one sees a type of the true desert Indian — the Qahátika. When or why they separated from...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1907
Extent:
1 item

4. L.R.298.b.2, 2(67)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 2(67)
Title:
Hipáh with arrow-brush — Maricopa. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length half-profile portrait of Hipáh, a Maricopa woman, kneeling in a field of arrow-brush and holding a sheaf of the crop in her arms: 'Arrow-brush is extensively used by the tribes of this region as a covering for their houses. In earlier time they lived in c...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1907
Extent:
1 item

5. L.R.298.b.2, 2(69)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 2(69)
Title:
Saguaro fruit gatherers — Maricopa. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View of three Maricopa women in the desert next to a giant cactus, bearing wide baskets to collect its fruit: 'Like their Piman neighbours, the Maricopa gather large quantities of the fruit of the saguaro, or giant cactus, which they relish in its natural state as we...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1907
Extent:
1 item

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