Native American (Pueblo, Hopi) women and girls sit and stand on the road to Second Mesa, Arizona. Two women wrapped in blankets crouch by a small fire while two girls who wear dresses, blankets, and hair in side whirls walk on the rocky desert landscape.
Date
August, 1899
Notes
Condition: holes in nitrate negative, emulsion deterioration; red ink stains on print.; Inked on back of print: "About Sunrise on road to the Middle Mesa. Old woman warming her hands over a tiny fire."; Photographer's seal embossed on print.; Title inked on back of print.; Vintage photographic print.; Written on back of print: "Ind- Pueblo- Hopi Biog- Groups (Women, unident)".; Written on nitrate negative: "73."; R7001707370
Physical Description
1 photonegative : nitrate ; 13 x 18 cm. (5 x 7 in.); 1 photoprint ; 11 x 16 cm. (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)
Is Part Of
C Photo Collection 37. H. S. Poley collection.
Subject
Hopi Indians--Clothing & dress--Arizona--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Children--Arizona--1890-1900.; Pueblo Indians--Women--Arizona--1890-1900.; Hopi Indian Reservation (Ariz.)--1890-1900.; Second Mesa (Ariz.)--1890-1900.; Campfires--Arizona--Second Mesa--1890-1900.
Rights
Restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
