Visual Materials

Cahuilla woman grinding acorns for flour

Description: A view of an old Indian woman seated with a rock between her legs. On the rock is a basket and she is grinding acorns into flour with a grinding stone.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: circa 1889
Call number: photCL Pierce 01760
Find out more: View in the Huntington Digital Library(Opens in new tab); View in the Library catalog(Opens in new tab)

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