Indian Sweat House, Mendocino County, California

Carleton E. Watkins

1863 · Albumen silver print from glass negative · Photographs

In 1857 a reservation was created north of Mendocino to resettle the native Pomo people, and Fort Bragg was established to oversee it. Ethnographic studies were not typical of Watkins, but he found in this man-made structure something of the monumentality that also caught his eye in nature.

Artist

Carleton E. Watkins

Date

1863

Medium

Albumen silver print from glass negative

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005