Bestanddeel 29 - Pomo Mission, Mendocino County, California

16 items; 13.7 cm x 8.5 cm; Black and white print

A collection of photographs chronicling missionary work among the Pomo people, a group of Native Americans in Mendocino County in Northern California. A number of Dominican sisters and Capuchin friars are present in the photographs. Several images show young Native American converts. Annotations on the reverse of the prints include:
‘Indian Missionaries with their first Communicants / Ukiah Valley (Pomo Indians)’.
‘Communion Sunday with the Indian’ at St. Dominic’s Church, Pinoleville, Ukiah, California.
‘Indian Missionaries with their first Communicants / Ukiah Valley (Pomo Indians)’.
‘Pomo Indians / Pinoleville, California, St. Dominic’s Chapel’.
‘In the Hop Fields – near Ukiah’.
‘Ukiah Valley’.
‘Pomo Indian / Poor Blind John / Ukiah, California’.
‘Easter Sunday at St. Patrick’s Mission Chapel’.
‘Pomo Indians, Ukiah / Blind John and his sister Mary with a Dominican Sister’.
‘Elsie and her Cat’.
‘Pomo Indian and their Babies’.