Indian Sweat House, Mendicino County, Colorado, 1863, Albumen silver print from glass negative, Image: 40 x 52.4 cm (15 3/4 x 20 5/8 in.), Photographs, Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829–1916), 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
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Indian Sweat House, Mendicino County, Colorado, 1863, Albumen silver print, glass negative, Image, 40 x 52.4 cm, 15 3/4 20 5/8, Photographs, Carleton E. Watkins, American, 1829–1916, 1857, reservation, created north, Mendocino, resettle, native Pomo, people, Fort Bragg, established, oversee, Ethnographic studies, typical, Watkins, man, structure something, monumentality, caught, eye, nature
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