Yuma (Quechan); E. A. Bonine, photographer
Lamanda Park, Los Angeles County, California; subject Arizona
circa 1885
Albumen print, cabinet card
4.5 x 7 in
This albumen cabinet card shows two Yuma women in Bonine's studio, one seated and one standing behind and beside her, a coiled basket tray held between them. The seated woman wears a floral patterned skirt and a shell necklace, her chin tattooed and her hair long and loose, while the standing woman is bare above a wrapped skirt printed with large palmette motifs and a band of dots along the hem, a white shell gorget at her throat. The coiled basket held before them carries reeds or worked sticks, and both women stand and sit barefoot on the studio floor. The mount has the orange border and the negative number 55 at lower left, printed below "Yuma Indians, Arizona, E. A. Bonine, Photo., Lamanda Park, Los Angeles Co., Cal.," with light spotting and a short edge crack at right.
Elias A. Bonine (1843 to 1916) was a photographer who settled in Southern California and operated a studio at Lamanda Park, near Pasadena. He made repeated trips to Arizona in the 1870s and 1880s, photographing Yuma, Mojave, and other Colorado River peoples in staged studio settings, and sold the resulting portraits commercially by mail. His photographs are held in public collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Anthropological Archives.
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Yuma (Quechan); E. A. Bonine, photographer
Lamanda Park, Los Angeles County, California; subject Arizona
circa 1885
Albumen print, cabinet card
4.5 x 7 in
This albumen cabinet card shows two Yuma women in Bonine's studio, one seated and one standing behind and beside her, a coiled basket tray held between them. The seated woman wears a floral patterned skirt and a shell necklace, her chin tattooed and her hair long and loose, while the standing woman is bare above a wrapped skirt printed with large palmette motifs and a band of dots along the hem, a white shell gorget at her throat. The coiled basket held before them carries reeds or worked sticks, and both women stand and sit barefoot on the studio floor. The mount has the orange border and the negative number 55 at lower left, printed below "Yuma Indians, Arizona, E. A. Bonine, Photo., Lamanda Park, Los Angeles Co., Cal.," with light spotting and a short edge crack at right.
Elias A. Bonine (1843 to 1916) was a photographer who settled in Southern California and operated a studio at Lamanda Park, near Pasadena. He made repeated trips to Arizona in the 1870s and 1880s, photographing Yuma, Mojave, and other Colorado River peoples in staged studio settings, and sold the resulting portraits commercially by mail. His photographs are held in public collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Anthropological Archives.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
