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Portrait of the Governor of San Felipe pueblo demonstrating the use of a pump–drill, 1880...

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PRM479451
Image title
Portrait of the Governor of San Felipe pueblo demonstrating the use of a pump–drill, 1880 (albumen print)
Artist
Hillers, John K. (1843-1925) / American
Location
Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK
Medium
albumen print
Date
1880 AD (C19th AD)
Image description

Portrait of a man (named Ah–fit–che, better known as Pedro Jose Quivera), the governor of San Felipe pueblo demonstrating the use of a pump–drill, a tool used to drill holes in flat turquoise and shell beads. According to James Stevenson's original note for this photograph (prepared circa 1885), 'the point of the drill is a small flake of flint fastened in a slit in the lower end of the shaft which is tightly wrapped either with a string or sinew. When the stone point becomes dull it is sharpened by flaking the tip in the same manner that flint arrow points are made. The wheel is made sometimes of stone, wood, or bone, the former being preferable. The piece of turquois[e] to be drilled is placed in a suitable cavity in a block of wood and held there by the thumb of the left hand while the drill is manipulated by the right, as shown in the picture. Turquois[e] and shell bead drilling is extensively practised by the Indians of the Rio Grande valley.'

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© Pitt Rivers Museum / Bridgeman Images
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USA / North America / America (continent) / american indian / new mexico / governor / tools / indians / ah-fit-che / craft / informal / north america / pump drill / seated / portrait / native american / tool / full-length / america / male / demonstration / crafts / san felipe pueblo / usa / pedro jose quivera / rio grande / Photograph / Photography / Mzphoto
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