Detail View: Image Archives: Jicarilla Apache women baking bread

File Name: 
73-061.jpg
catalog number: 
IV.73-061.P
collection: 
Image Archives
title: 
Jicarilla Apache women baking bread
creator: 
Hendrina Hospers
creator type: 
photographer
creator: 
Clifford "Max" Miller
creator type: 
creator of digital collection
description: 
Anita Carmillo and her mother baking bread in an earth oven. Identified as Miss Hunter, Anita, her mother (Navajo). Married into Cervera's family (Anita Carmillo), front. The earthen oven was an adoption from their Pueblo neighbors. The opening of the oven is facing the baker who has a long-handled paddle in her hand. She lays the loaf, ready to bake, on the paddle and places it on the clean, pre-heated oven floor. When the oven is filled, the opening and the chimney-hole are closed off to retain the heat for baking.
date: 
1916-1926
date type: 
date of photograph
location: 
USA, New Mexico, Jicarilla Apache Reservation, Dulce
modified: 
no
format: 
image/jpg
file size: 
5.28 MB
source: 
3x4 black and white photographic print scanned with Epson Expression 10000XL at 1000dpi, 16-bit grayscale.
rights: 
use with permission Denver Museum of Nature and Science