Washing Grain at Chamita
Dateca. 1950
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions7 1/2 × 9 7/16 in. (19.1 × 23.9 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of John Airy
Object numberPA1982.181.816
DescriptionA woman uses a metal tub to wash grain while four children stand behind her near a well in the yard of a home in Chamita, New Mexico. Chile ristras hang from a wooden rack in the background near an adobe house. A typed caption on the back of the photograph reads, "Washing the grain to further clean it after hand threshing is a common sight among New Mexico's tiny Spanish-American villages in the fall of the year. This photo shows a Spanish-American woman at Chamita, one of the oldest settlements in New Mexico, cleaning the grain. At the left is a water trough made from a hollowed log. In the background are strings of bright red chili peppers."
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ca. 1950
ca. 1950
August 4, 1947
June 1930