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English: Funeral pyre of dead Mojave Indian chief, Sistuma, ca.1902
  • Photograph of the funeral pyre of dead Mojave Indian chief, Sistuma, ca.1902.
  • Smoke is beginning to rise from the stack of logs. A group of more than 30 people stand behind the fire.
  • The landscape is flat far into the distance. A small hill is visible in the distant background at left.
Call number: CHS-1403
Photographer: Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Filename: CHS-1403
Coverage date: circa 1902
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 1403
Archival file: chs_Volume91/CHS-1403.tiff
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: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1902
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): Arizona
Legacy record ID: chs-m15017; USC-1-1-1-13931
Geographic subject: deserts: Mojave Desert
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Subject (file heading): Indians -- Mojave
Subject (lcsh): Indians of North America; Mohave Indians; Clothing and dress; Funeral rites and ceremonies
Date circa 1902
date QS:P,+1902-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/13771
Author Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946

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