Yaqui / Native Americans / Cotton pickers
Source :NARA-NWDNS
NaraID :83-G-41832


Photographer :Lange, Dorothea
Personal Name :N/A
Topical Name :N/A
Geographical Name :N/A
Institution Name :Cortaro Farms

Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Agricultural Economics.

Date :11/00/1940

State :AZ
Country :USA



Cortaro Farms, Pinal County, Arizona. Yaqui Indian cotton picker. Some are employed on this ranch the year round, especially for irrigating, at $.20 per hour. When irrigating they work 12-hour shift. The superintendent says that they are not good with machinery but that “the Yaqui is an artist with the shovel“.

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