Woman Grinding

Woman Grinding

Photograph

John K. Hillers

Maker
American, b. Germany, 1843–1925

Woman Grinding

[portrait of 2 Pai Ute women and a child in straw hut]


From Indians of the Colorado Valley


1874
Albumen silver print
11 x 7.6 cm (each image) on 11.3 x 17.6 cm mount (yellow)
Purchase, ex-collection Fred S. Lightfoot
1981.0967.0080
Inscriptions recto (letterpress): U.S. Topographical and Geological Survey of the
Colorado River of the West by W. Powell and A.H. Thompson
verso (label): Indians of the Colorado Valley No. 7 KAÍ-VAV-ITS
A tribe of the Pai Utes, living on the Kai-bab Plateau, near the Grand
Cañon of the Colorado in Northern Arizona. Woman Grinding - Photograph
by Hillers. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1874 by
J.W. Powell, in the Office of the Library of Congress at Washington.
verso (stamp) Museum of Modern Art, Department of Photography
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