"Catching the Bread" part of the ceremony of the Fiesta de San Esteban (Saint Stephen), Acoma Pueblo, ca.1900 (CHS-4514)

"Catching the Bread" part of the ceremony of the Fiesta de San Esteban (Saint Stephen), Acoma Pueblo, ca.1900
Photograph of the "Catching the Bread" part of the ceremony of the Fiesta de San Esteban (Saint Stephen), Acoma Pueblo, ca.1900. A crowd of more than a hundred people -- mostly men, but some women and children as well -- stand on the rocky ground before an adobe building. Some of them stretch their arms forward. Three horses stand behnd the crowd near the building wall. A large tree grows at left.
Call number: CHS-4514
Legacy record ID: chs-m16850; USC-1-1-1-13461
Photographer: James, George Wharton
Filename: CHS-4514
Coverage date: circa 1900
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Acoma Pueblo
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 4514
Microfiche number: 1-160-16
Archival file: chs_Volume96/CHS-4514.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): 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): tribal areas
Project: USC
Repository email: [email protected]
Identifying number: unidentified no: James-859
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1900
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): New Mexico
Format: glass plate negatives
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Subject (file heading): Indians -- Acoma
Subject (lcsh): Indians of North America; Acoma Indians
Subject: Acoma Indians