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Title Navajo Indians weaving
Call Number N-325
Summary Two Native American women and a young girl weave blankets from wool. One woman sits in front of a loom with a patterned blanket. She wears a belt with a row of silver buckles adorning it. The young girl combs out wool with a large, flat brush. The other woman spools the wool onto a spindle. Patterned blankets lie on the ground where they work.
Date [between 1921 and 1931?]
Photographer Nusbaum, Jesse L. (Jesse Logan).
Notes Title from inventory prepared by Western History Department, Denver Public Library.
Number "19" stenciled in top corner of negative.
Photo Materials 1 photoprint ; 12 x 17 cm. (4 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.)
1 copy photonegative ; 13 x 18 cm. (5 x 7 in.)
Copyright Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
See Also Indians of North America Women 1920-1930.
Weaving 1920-1930.
Navajo Indians 1920-1930.
Imaged.
Film negatives.
Photographic prints.
URL http://gowest.coalliance.org/cgi-bin/imager?00110325


Title Hopi Indian woman's occupation-baby nursing and basket-weaving, Oraibi, Arizona
Call Number X-30891
Summary A Native American Hopi Pueblo woman poses with a nursing baby and a young naked boy; she displays a basket she is weaving, Oraibi, Third Mesa, Arizona. Animal pelts hang outside the adobe house entrance.
Date [between 1900 and 1910?]
Photographer Underwood & Underwood
Notes Title and photographer printed on front of card; at head of title: "6177;" description of pueblo and title in several languages printed on back of card.
Photo Materials 1 photoprint on stereo card ; 9 x 18 cm. (3 1/2 x 7 in.)
Condition Condition: Stereo card is warped.
Copyright Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
See Also Indians of North America 1900-1910. Arizona Oraibi
Hopi Indians Women 1900-1910. Arizona Oraibi
Pueblo Indians Children 1900-1910. Arizona Oraibi
Basket making 1900-1910. Arizona Oraibi
Breast feeding 1900-1910. Arizona Oraibi
Oraibi (Ariz.) 1900-1910.
Hopi Indian Reservation (Ariz.) 1900-1910.
Stereographs.
Imaged.
URL http://gowest.coalliance.org/cgi-bin/imager?10030891


Title Indian woman cooking noon meal
Call Number X-31022
Summary A Native American Flathead (Salish) woman sits on the ground in front of a tepee and tends cooking pots on an open fire. She holds an infant in her lap, another child sits next to her.
Date 1907
Photographer Stone, Benjamin
Notes Title hand-written on front of original.
Photo Materials 1 photoprint ; 18 x 13 cm. (7 x 5 in.)
Copyright Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
See Also Indians of North America Children 1900-1910.
Salish Indians Women 1900-1910.
Outdoor cookery 1900-1910.
Photographic prints.
Imaged.
URL http://gowest.coalliance.org/cgi-bin/imager?10031022

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