(Documentary Artifact): One b/w negative of an outdoor portrait of a woman identified as Anita Peña [Anita Pena] (by Ken Hedges, see below) posing with a basket. She wears a dress and a shawl over her head and shoulders.
Notes on negative envelope:
86:15900-610/ Davis Coll./ 86 Dup/ Indian woman with/ basket – no i.d./ July 1909
*According to additional information provided on 10/2011 by a member of the E.H. Davis Project Scholar Advisory Committee: This woman is possibly Cahuilla or Cupa. Her work may be in Palm Springs.
**According to additional information provided on 10/2011 by Ken Hedges, Emeritus Curator of California Collections, San Diego Museum of Man and a member of the E.H. Davis Project Scholar Advisory Committee: A copy of this photo is in the collections of the Museum of Man (image no. 3568, source unknown), where it is identified as Anita Peña of Mesa Grande, dated 1901. The basket in the photo is also in the collections of the Museum of Man, catalog no. 1939-8-1 with no accession data as to source. The basket was identified when it was noted that it matched the basket in the photo.
