Alice Rix holding young girl, Annie Rix, in her lap

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  Alice Rix holding young girl, Annie Rix, in her lap

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  Note with item reads: "Alice Rix aged 27, Annie Rix, Born 1855." Presumably mother and child; date based on approximate age of child.

  (photDAG 159)

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  [Mojave girl holding a young boy in her arms.]

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  This set of photographs by Frederick Monsen focuses on Native Americans of the Southwest in mostly candid views taken in Pueblo communities, approx. 1886-1911. Photographs include portraits, ceremonies, dances, pueblos, livestock and scenes of daily activities. A smaller portion of the collection consists of landscapes, cliff-dwellings, ruins, gold miners, wagons and scenes of pioneer life in the West. Some photographs were made by Monsen while he was with U.S. Geological Surveys (including the Brown-Stanton survey of 1889), and others during his own photography trips. The majority of Native Americans pictured are Hopi and Navajo, but there are also Paiute, Apache, and Pueblo Indians. There are a few views of Mojave Indians of Southern California, and natives of Baja, Mexico. There are several views of Indian children, shown with and without clothes, in their daily activities. Scenes of non-Indian Western life include men in covered wagons on trails, gold prospectors and stagecoaches. There are many artistic landscape views of canyons, buttes and mesas; Death Valley; salt beds; ancient ruins; cactus and other desert plants. Unusual subjects of note are three photographs of skeletons in the deserts of Arizona and one view of the covered bodies of prospectors being carried on burros. The prints are all signed by Monsen and have typed or handwritten captions on the back, written by Monsen.

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  Unidentified young man [Rix or Hamlin family?]

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  photDAG 160

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  Unidentified young child [Rix or Hamlin family?]

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  photDAG 158

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  Unidentified young woman [Rix or Hamlin family?]

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  photDAG 164

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  Unidentified young man [Rix or Hamlin family?]

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  Dated based on content and photograph format.

  (photDAG 160)