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Order Number	00078513
Title	Holding a Native American basket
Collection ID	Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Location/Accession	L.A.-Museums-Southwest Museum; N-003-268 4x5
Date	Circa 193-?
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger.
Historical Data	Charles Fletcher Lummis founded the Southwest Museum in 1907. The museum moved from Downtown Los Angeles to its current location at 234 Museum Drive in Mt. Washington in 1914, and has been there ever since. The 1914 building was designed by architects Sumner P. Hunt and Silas Reese Burns. It became part of the Autry National Center in 2004. The building is registered on the National Register of Historic Places #92001270.
Description	A young woman wearing a buckskin dress smiles as she sits on a trunk, holding a Native American basket in her lap. She is sitting outside the Southwest Museum. Caption on the back of the photograph reads: "The main staple of the diet of the California Indians was acron mush, prepared by leaching the tanic acid out of the acorns by crushing and boiling them in water-tight baskets".
Publisher	Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
Subject	Southwest Museum of the American Indian. Indians of North America--Museums--California--Los Angeles. Indian baskets--North America. Museums--California--Los Angeles. Historic sites--California--Los Angeles. Lummis, Charles Fletcher,1859-1928. Burns, Silas Reese. Hunt, Sumner P.
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection