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Object Number
995-26-00/1.11
Display Title
Group of Mission Indians in front of their church
Descriptions
Object Description
Written on album page: "Mission Indians in front of their old church at Pala, So. California at the call / of Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson, to meet Prof. C. C. Painter, and J W Davis. / In her last sickness at San Francisco, these friends, having known her in the EAst, before the issue of her famous story / of Ramona; Called and were interested by her to go and meet "her Indians" - altho it was then verging into mid-summer / heat. And representatives from the Indians from the district around Pala gathered on word from 'The Queen' as / they called her. Gathere in the Church, they reported the grievous encroachments of the Whites on their lands, their water / supplies, and their crops Since Mrs. Jackson Had, as commissioned by our Government, been able to work in their defence." [continued in remarks]
Department
Photographic
Date
1885
Artist
Joshua W. Davis
Culture
- Mission
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
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California
/
San Diego County
/
Pala
Materials
Print, black and white adhered to Album
Dimensions
Overall: 15.875 × 20.6375 cm (6 1/4 × 8 1/8 in.)
Label on object
See notes and histories for inscriptions
Provenance
Donor
Friends of the Lincoln Library
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