Collection place: North Central California / Culture or time period: California tribes / Maker or artist: Clinton Hart Merriam / Materials: Acetate film - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Black-and-white negative, accession number 15-22785, described as Michopdo Midoo [Maidu] Indian from Chico wearing flat headpiece with long upstanding feather; Big Head Dance

Hearst Museum object titled Black-and-white negative, accession number 15-23205, described as black-and-white negative: Blind Tom California, Central, Southern Maidu as per C. Hart Merriam 1905

Hearst Museum object titled Black-and-white negative, accession number MO-TEMP27, described as Three performers wearing feather headdresses, flicker-feather bands, and broad feather belts

Hearst Museum object titled Black-and-white negative, accession number 15-22786, described as Michopdo Midoo [Maidu] Indian from Chico wearing flat headpiece with long upstanding feather; Big Head Dance

Hearst Museum object titled Black-and-white negative, accession number 15-23218, described as black-and-white negative: Wintun Joe and wife "This couple has been identified as Joe Thomas and his wife who lived on the McCloud River. ID by Martha Charles, a McCloud Wintu living on Oasis Rd. north of Redding, born in 1888 on McCloud River. She claims that he was called "Thomas" byt the whites because he uttered the Wintu word (tome?) meaning "to tell the truth, " when he was interrogated regarding a robbery at Old Shasta..." Peter N. Kudston, Ranger Naturalist Shasta Lake District, Redding California September 7, 1973; Juyly 1903 C. Hart Merriam

Hearst Museum object titled Black-and-white negative, accession number 15-23204, described as black-and-white negative: Old woman standing with kerchief on head "Two old Winut women, Ellen Silver Thorne and Martha Charles, have confidently identified this woman as Fanny Brown, a Wintu shaman with evil powers" Dubois 1935 photograph. As per C. Hart Merriam 1927 California Napa triblet, Wintun

Hearst Museum object titled Black-and-white negative, accession number 15-22784, described as Roundhouse, same as 15-22783 and 13-4056a, different view; Big Head Dance

Hearst Museum object titled Black-and-white negative, accession number 15-22787, described as Performer wearing skirt of frayed willow bark, flicker-feather headbands, and headdress of wands tipped with California poppies; Big Head Dance

Hearst Museum object titled Black-and-white negative, accession number 15-22782, described as Indian house with roundhouse in background; Big Head Dance

Hearst Museum object titled Black-and-white negative, accession number 15-22783, described as Roundhouse in which major portion of the ceremony was performed; Big Head Dance