Title

Indians Building Missions

Caption

California: c. 1930
The padres taught the Native Americans to make the adobe bricks used in the building of the missions. The door and window frames were made by the carpenters. Round wooden pegs held the frames together. The bricks were laid around the projecting top and bottom pieces of the frames to hold them securely in the wall. The Indians were taught to set each brick carefully in order to keep the layers of brick level and to form straight walls.

Credit line

Photo12/Underwood Archives/UIG

Reference

UMG20A20_124

Model release

No

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

52,0Mb (7,6Mb) / 16,0in x 12,6in / 4800 x 3787 (300dpi)

Keywords

working 1920s Twenties 1930 1930s Thirties 2 People 2 people Arranging B & W B&W Brick Mason Bricklayer California California Indians California Missions California Native Americans First Nation Indians Layer Mud Bricks Native Americans USA United States adobe adobe bricks black & white black and white brick wall bricks building construction craftsman crouching daytime effort historical horizontal in a row indigenous job manual worker men occupation occupations outdoors photography skill tribe two people vintage working