Visual Materials

Jacinta Serrano, last San Gabriel Mission Indian basket maker

Description: A view of Jacinta Serrano grinding corn with a metate. Around her are various grinding stones and pots. There are Indian blankets behind her and to her left is a sign reading, "Jacinta Serrano, Basket Maker. She is 90 years old and lived San Gabriel in the early years of the mission. "
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1887
Call number: photCL Pierce 01731
Find out more: View in the Huntington Digital Library(Opens in new tab); View in the Library catalog(Opens in new tab)

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