Glass slide
Dimensions not provided
Provenance: Private collection, Upstate New York
This 1912 glass slide identifies Candelaria Valenzuela, a Chumash basket maker from California. She is shown seated indoors holding a basketry tray, with another basket visible on the table beside her. As a named image of a Native California maker, the slide has documentary value beyond a general portrait.
Glass slides were used for projection, teaching, and archival documentation, giving this object a different function from a standard photographic print. The image connects Valenzuela directly to Chumash basketry, a major artistic and cultural tradition of coastal and southern California Native communities. As a California Native American image, it fits within Chumash history, basketry studies, and early twentieth-century documentary photography.
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Glass slide
Dimensions not provided
Provenance: Private collection, Upstate New York
This 1912 glass slide identifies Candelaria Valenzuela, a Chumash basket maker from California. She is shown seated indoors holding a basketry tray, with another basket visible on the table beside her. As a named image of a Native California maker, the slide has documentary value beyond a general portrait.
Glass slides were used for projection, teaching, and archival documentation, giving this object a different function from a standard photographic print. The image connects Valenzuela directly to Chumash basketry, a major artistic and cultural tradition of coastal and southern California Native communities. As a California Native American image, it fits within Chumash history, basketry studies, and early twentieth-century documentary photography.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
