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Photographer: Edward H. Davis (Edward Harvey Davis/E. H. Davis), Non-Indian, 1862-1951

Subject: Alena Levi (Helena Levi/Mrs. Louis Levy), Desert Cahuilla [Torres-Martinez Reservation/Torres-Martinez Band], ca. 1853-ca. 1922

Date Created: October 30, 1917

Catalog Number: P02323

Format: Silver gelatin print

Dimensions: 3.25 x 5 in.

Collection History: Edward H. Davis owned a ranch outside San Diego, California, and became fascinated with local Indian people. The collection of Native objects he developed attracted the attention of George Heye, who purchased many items from Davis and hired him as a field collector in 1916. Photographs by Davis from southern California and northern Mexico probably accompanied the objects he sold to or collected for MAI.

Description: In a yard, Alena Levi (Levy), on left, adds arrow weed to the bottom of a large grainary basket (072271.000). Another woman and a man look on. According to Edward H. Davis, the basket did not have a bottom, but he asked Levi to add one before he bought the item from her.

Place: Tova (Agua Dulce), Torres Martinez Reservation; Riverside County; California; USA

Culture/People: Desert Cahuilla [Torres-Martinez Reservation/Torres-Martinez Band]

Culture Hierarchy: Desert Cahuilla>Desert Cahuilla [Torres-Martinez Reservation/Torres-Martinez Band]

Persistent URL:http://www.americanindian.si.edu/searchcollections/item.aspx?irn=323165

Repository:National Museum of the American Indian

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