Indian Sweat House, Mendocino County, California
In 1857 a reservation was created north of Mendocino to resettle the native Pomo people, and Fort Bragg was established to oversee it. Ethnographic studies were not typical of Watkins, but he found in this man-made structure something of the monumentality that also caught his eye in nature.
Artwork Details
- Title: Indian Sweat House, Mendocino County, California
- Artist: Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829–1916)
- Date: 1863
- Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
- Dimensions: Image: 40 x 52.4 cm (15 3/4 x 20 5/8 in.)
Mount: 55.1 x 68.3 cm (21 11/16 x 26 7/8 in.) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005
- Object Number: 2005.100.339
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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