Detail View: Image Archives: Chona posing with a finished Basket

File Name: 
UN11-295.jpg
catalog number: 
UN11-295
collection: 
Ruth Murray Underhill
title: 
Chona posing with a finished Basket
creator: 
Ruth Underhill
creator type: 
photographer
creator: 
Holly Clymore
creator type: 
creator of digital collection
description: 
Maria Chona of the Southern Arizona Tohono O'Odham (Papago) tribe was Ruth Underhills subject for her book, Papago Woman (1936). Chona is shown here posing with her black and white finished basket made with Devils Claw and Yucca plant. 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: 
1931-1947
date type: 
dateof photograph
location: 
USA, Sonoran Desert, Southeastern Arizona and Northwest Mexico
modified: 
Yes, 3.5 x 4.5 black and white print scanned with Epson Expression 1000XL at 600 dpi, 8-bit grayscale with brightness, contrast adjustments using Photoshop CS4.
format: 
image/jpg
file size: 
2.85 MB
source: 
3.5 x 4.5 black and white print
rights: 
use with permission Denver Museum of Nature & Science