Detail View: Image Archives: Ruth Underhill in the Field

File Name: 
UN84-043.jpg
catalog number: 
UN84-043
collection: 
Ruth Murray Underhill
title: 
Ruth Underhill in the Field
creator: 
Ruth Underhill
creator type: 
photographer
creator: 
Holly Clymore
creator type: 
creator of digital collection
description: 
Ruth Underhill stands inside a square layout for a game made of (hand-size) rocks the size of a small room while studying the field near Gila Butes, Pima Reservation, Arizona. 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: 
1931-1945
date type: 
dateof photograph
location: 
USA, Sonoran Desert, Southeastern Arizona and Northwest Mexico
modified: 
Yes, 8 x 10 black and white print scanned with Epson Expression 1000XL at 300 dpi, 8-bit grayscale with brightness, contrast adjustments using Photoshop CS4.
format: 
image/jpg
file size: 
2.85 MB
source: 
8 x 10 black and white print
rights: 
use with permission Denver Museum of Nature & Science