Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
C. Hart Merriam, Photographer
Creator Name:
Robert F. Heizer, Donor
Creator Role:
Donor
Creator Role:
Photographer
Title:
Wintun Joe and wife
Collection Title Date:
1900-1960
Date:
July, 1903
Current Location:
Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology. University of California, Berkeley.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-3712
Object ID:
15-23218
Heading:
Accession Number
Notes:
2341
Heading:
Citation Note
Notes:
Theodora Kroeber & Robert F. Heizer, 1968, Almost Ancestors, Sierra Club, pl. 75.
Heading:
General Note
Notes:
"This couple has been identified as Joe Thomas and his wife, who lived on the McCloud Ri. I.D., by Martha Charles, a McCloud Wintu living on Oasis Rd. north of Redding, born in 1888 on McCloud R. She claims that he was called "Thomas"
Notes:
by 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 M. Knudtson, Ranger Naturalist, Shasta County Distr., Redding, Ca. 9/7/73
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/kt196n98f j

Wintun Joe and wife