Detail View: Image Archives: Women with paddle smoothing pottery

File Name: 
UN82-062.jpg
catalog number: 
UN82-062
collection: 
Ruth Murray Underhill
title: 
Women with paddle smoothing pottery
creator: 
Ruth Underhill
creator type: 
photographer
creator: 
Holly Clymore
creator type: 
creator of digital collection
description: 
Tohono O'odham (Papago) woman using a paddle to smooth the bottom of a pot made out of course clay. The clay pots were used to for water, grain, cooking and trade. After graduating from Columbia University in Anthropology, Ruth Underhill studied a group of Native Americans in southern Arizona. Through her scientific research she was able to preserve the original language, poetry and songs of the Tohono O'odham (Papago) people.
date: 
1931-1941
date type: 
dateof photograph
location: 
USA, Sonoran Desert, Southeastern Arizona and Northwest Mexico
modified: 
Yes, 5 x 7 black and white print scanned with Epson Expression 1000XL at 400 dpi, 8-bit grayscale with brightness, contrast adjustments using Photoshop CS4.
format: 
image/jpg
file size: 
2.24 MB
source: 
5 x 7 black and white print
rights: 
use with permission Denver Museum of Nature & Science