Arthur Sanger sits with a small display of Nicoleño artifacts excavated from San Nicolas Island, Los Angeles, 1928

Item Overview

Title

Arthur Sanger sits with a small display of Nicoleño artifacts excavated from San Nicolas Island, Los Angeles, 1928

Date Created

[circa April, 1928]

Date

1928-04

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

This photograph appears with the article, "ISLAND YIELDS CLEW TO PAST: Archaeologist Back from, Trip to San Nicolas Stone Image Hints of Trade With Mainland Relics Indicate Dwellers Were Warlike," Los Angeles Times, 05 Apr. 1928: A2
Left-of-center, Arthur R. Sanger sits behind a small folding table set up on a porch. He faces slightly right and looks down towards the table as he holds a Native American instrument to his mouth. The table sits in front of him at center. A variety of Nicoleño relics and artifacts retrieved from a recent expedition to San Nicolas Island are on display. Bowls, pottery and some tools lie near the left edge of the table. Behind them, storage or display trays contain small tools and strings of beads. The wood siding of the building abuts the table at right. The rest of the building stretches across the background at left.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: SECRETS UNLOCKED OF PREHISTORIC RACE A. R. Sanger and Part of His New Collection [Los Angeles Times, 08 Apr. 1928: A2]
Text from negative sleeve: SANGER, ARTHUR ARCHEOLOGIST [sic] 1928
Typescript on negative: ARTHUR SANGER AND COLLECTION

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Sanger, Arthur R., 1880-1971

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Nicoleño Indians
Archaeology--California--San Nicolas Island
Nicoleño arts & crafts
Nicoleño antiquities