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Nov 20, 2012
(Documentary Artifact): One b/w photographic print of Edward H. Davis crouching behind an open crematory pit prior to the covering of the pit in Parker, Arizona.
Notes on verso of print:
OP 13029-181/ 87:16080-181/ 593/ EDW. H. DAVIS INSPECTING CREMATORY PIT/ AT PARKER PRIOR TO COVERING PIT AFTER/ CREMATION/ 11/24/20
Nov 20, 2012
(Documentary Artifact): One b/w photographic print of a view of an approximately three hundred foot long row of crematory pits containing fifty-four to fifty-six pits. A wooden box is near the pit in the foreground. The pit appears to still be smoldering.
Notes on verso of print:
OP 13029-182/ 87:16080-182/ 586/ OPPOSITE VIEW OF CREMATORY PIT – ROW/ APPROX. 300′ LONG CONTAINS 54-56 PITS
Nov 20, 2012
(Documentary Artifact): One b/w photographic print of a view of an approximately three hundred foot long row of crematory pits containing fifty-four to fifty-six pits. A wooden box is near the pit in the foreground. The pit appears to still be smoldering.
Notes on verso of print:
OP 13029-182A/ 87:16080-182A/ 586/ VIEW OF CREMATORY PIT – ROW/ APPROX. 300′ LONG CONTAINS 54-56 PITS
Nov 20, 2012
(Documentary Artifact): Two b/w photographic prints of John Burton using a shovel to fill in a crematory pit of a woman whose remains were cremated the previous afternoon. Ash and bone fragments are in the bottom of the pit.
Same image as the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) print, P03798.
Nov 20, 2012
(Documentary Artifact): Two b/w photographic prints of John Burton with a shovel standing next to a row of burial pits which are filled in and banked up. The pit he stands next to is the last of a long line of crematory mounds extending to the south for several hundred feet.
Same image as the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) print, P03797.
