A group of Hopi Indian children on a 2 burros in the village of Shonguapavi, ca.1901 (CHS-1040)

A group of Hopi Indian children on a 2 burros in the village of Shonguapavi, ca.1901
Photograph of a group of 8 Hopi Indian children sitting on 2 burros in the village of Shonguapavi, Second Mesa, Arizona, ca.1901.
A Hopi Indian man is steadying the left burro (facing right), bearing 6 children, by its neck and nose. The burro on the right (facing right), bearing 2 children, is being steadied by a Hopi man at its rear. A third man is kneeling between the two holding a little burro under his right arm and a dog at his left hand.
An adobe dwelling is visible behind them.


Call number: CHS-1040
Photographer: Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Filename: CHS-1040
Coverage date: circa 1901
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Format: glass plate negatives
Archival file: chs_Volume90/CHS-1040.tiff
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Shonguapavi
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): housing areas
Accession number: 1040
Repository email: [email protected]
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1901
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Legacy record ID: chs-m14810; USC-1-1-1-13518; 1-76-10
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Subject (file heading): Indians -- Hopi
Subject (lcsh): Indians of North America; Hopi Indians; Dwellings; Children; Animals
Subject: Hopi Indians