Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Jones, James C. (James Clyde), 1944-
- See more items in
- James C. Jones collection from Bolivia
- James C. Jones collection from Bolivia / Series 1: Photographic slides taken in San Ignacio de Moxos, Beni, Bolivia
- Extent
- 36 Slides (photographs)
- Date
- 1978 August 15-17
- Container
- Box 1, Sheet 23-24
- Archival Repository
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Type
- Archival materials
- Slides
- Slides (photographs)
- Collection Citation
- Identification of specific item; Date (if known); James Jones collection from Bolivia, Item Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution
- Collection Rights
- Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.
- Scope and Contents
- Roll 12 [12.1-12.36] notes provided by James Jones. August 15- August 17, 1978 2. Cart-load of cane in the field which will be taken to the trapiche nearby for milling (Caiti ranch). 1978 August 15. 3. Cart carries cane away from a section of field that has been cut. 1978 August 15. 4. Cutters in the cane in Caiti ranch. 1978 August 15. 5. Ant hills (hormigueros) atop lomas (de cepe) in a cut cane field. Those ant hills made by turíro. 1978 August 15. 6. A closer view of one of the hormigueros atop a lomita. 1978 August 15. 7. Cook shack of the Caiti family; note grain drying on skins in foreground, the string of píyu shells hung on wall. 1978 August 15. 8. A 'chiva" on Caiti racnh; this is a kinds found in some Indian homesteads. 1978 August 15. 9. Penósco (or penóco) tree flowering on the pampas- a beautiful tree. 1978 August 15. 10. Chivita climbing on the Caiti woodpile. 1978 August 15. 11. A cebú toro on the Caiti ranch; one of the four there in herd of ea. 100 cattle. The pump is the mark of the cebú. 1978 August 15. 12. Lucho Caiti digging for a tatú that entered this hole in the cane field. 1978 August 15. 13. Pulling the takú out of the ground after digging a hole neare where the creature entered. 1978 August 15. 14. Full view of tatú of #12. 1978 August 15. 15. Don Pablo Caiti's chipa hangs on side of his house. 1978 August 15. 16. Morning milking with a tutuma gourd on the caiti ranch. 1978 August 16. 17. Cow tied to snubbing post for milking; rear legs are hobbled. 1978 August 16. 18. Calf sucks from mother tied to snubbing post. The calf is let suck first to start the flow of milk for milking. Caiti ranch. 1978 August 16. 19. One of Ciati children drinks fresh milk at side of corral, a real luxury for Indian children hearabouts. 1978 August 16. 20. This gas tank is struck to call men to board on the Caiti ranch. 1978 August 16. 21. Pressing cane. Note the child driving the horses with whips. 1978 August 16. 22. Cane being fed through the press of Caiti ranch. 1978 August 16. 23. Pressing cane at Caiti molienda. Note the caldo being sluiced off. 1978 August 16. 24. A closer view of the cogged wheels as they turn to press cane stalks. 1978 August 16. 25. Milling cane. 1978 August 16. 26. Firing the horno of the cane paila. 1978 August 16. 27. Horno for boiling the caldo de caña. 1978 August 16. 28. The "gabeta," a container of multiple uses e.g. grain storage, for putting caldo, etc. 1978 August 16. 29. Cántaro maned by Benedicta Guayacoma de Caiti (Wife of Pablo Caiti); the tapered bottom is burried to keep contents cold. 1978 August 16. 30. A very old paila, possibly lasting from Jesuit times. 1978 August 16. 31. Looking ito paila from atop the stepped horno. 1978 August 16. 32. Pressing cane (Pablo Caiti on left). 1978 August 16. 33. RESTRICTED. Pablo Caiti's grandson pulls a pup on a skin. Caiti ranch. 1978 August 16. 34. One of Pablo Caiti's grandchildren drives cows to corral at sunset. 1978 August 16. 35. Caldo de caña cooks in the pails atop the stepped horno. 1978 August 17. 36. a res killed by Lucho Caiti early this norning' the meat will be used for domestic consumption. This Indian family has ca. 100 heard of cattle. 1978 August 17. 37. Pablo and Benedicta Caiti with some great grandchildren. 1978 August 17.
- Collection Restrictions
- Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
- Record ID
- ebl-1674240600663-1674240601032-1
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