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

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: [email protected]
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