Martin Mason Hazeltine (1827-1903), photographer. Piute Indian Camp at Mono Lake. Outdoor group portrait. Albumen stereoview. N.p. [California]: M. M. Hazeltine, ca. 1870s. On photographer's orange cardstock mount with view title, series title, and imprint to recto. 

A rare field view documenting Kutzadika'a (Northern Paiute/Mono Lake Paiute) women and children in their encampment bordering the Eastern Sierra. The group of four seated women and young girls are attired in calico dresses, headscarves, and trade necklaces, posed in an open clearing amid cottonwoods and aspens. Arranged prominently on the ground before them are traditional woven coiled baskets, including a large conical burden basket, a gathering tray, and storage vessels alongside trade pots and kettles.

Martin Mason Hazeltine (1827-1903) was one of the foremost landscape and field photographers of the Pacific Coast and Great Basin during the 1860s and 1870s. Traveling extensively throughout Yosemite, the High Sierra, Mono Lake, Idaho, and Nevada with his mobile photographic wagon, Hazeltine captured exceptional and scarce outdoor documentation of Indigenous daily life, material culture, and native basketry in the Great Basin region.

[Native Americans, Paiute, Northern Paiute, Kutzadika'a, Mono Lake, Eastern Sierra, Sierra Nevada Mountains, California Native Americans, Great Basin, Native Basketry, Burden Baskets, American West, Frontier History] [Photography, Early Photography, Historic Photography, Stereoviews, Stereographs, Albumen Prints, M. M. Hazeltine, Martin Mason Hazeltine, California Photographers]

Very good condition overall, featuring dark chocolate tones, strong contrast, and sharp focal clarity across the figures. The orange card mount is flat and well preserved, showing only faint corner softening and minimal handling wear consistent with age.