Native American Photographs

"The necklace"

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Title

"The necklace"

Description

Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Image of a Kai-Vav-It girl seen showing three other girls and two men a beaded necklace that she holds in her hand. The two men wear feathered headdresses.
"Indians of the Colorado Valley. No. 32. Kai-vav-its. A tribe of Pai Utes, living on the Kai-bab Plateau, near the Grand Canon of the Colorado, in northern Arizona. The necklace. Photographed by Hillers."
Copyright 1874 by J.W. Powell, Washington, D.C.
Published by J.F. Jarvis, 479 Pa. Avenue, Washington, D.C.
"U.S. Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado River of the West. By J.W. Powell and A.H. Thompson."
Gift of R.C. Waterson, 1875.

Creator

Hillers, John K., 1843-1925, photographer

Source

Graphic Arts Photos Native American
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Publisher

Jarvis, J. F. (John Fillis), 1849-1931

Date

1874

Citation

Hillers, John K., 1843-1925, photographer, “"The necklace",” Native American Photographs, accessed October 13, 2024, https://collections.americanantiquarian.org/nativeamericanphotographs/items/show/273.