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Photograph depicts a group of women and children outside a building, likely taken in a Hopi village in Arizona.

Woman working in an office at the new Museum of Anthropology building.

Woman working at the front desk of the new Museum of Anthropology building.

Image of a woman weaving a basket. Different images of the same woman and scene are printed on page 112 of Carter's book "From History's Locker," with the caption: "Basket weaving, and art that reaches its highest form among the Nootka tribe, is still very much in vogue today. Here Mrs. Wilson works with local grasses to create a beautiful little trinket basket."

Photograph depicts a woman weaving at a loom taken somewhere in the American Southwest, likely in Arizona.

Photograph of a woman, likely Zuni (A:shiwi), sitting at a loom and weaving. The photograph was likely taken in Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico.

Item is a photograph a woman tending cherry blossoms. Reads, "A JAPANESE LADY."

Item is an image of a woman standing with two buckets at her feet. Because of its location in the album, the photograph could have been taken in Rigolet

Image depicts a woman standing near the edge of a rapids filled river. The river is surrounded by trees. The woman may be Read's wife Ruth.

Item is a photograph of a woman wearing traditional clothing standing on a terrace surrounded by wisteria

Photograph of a woman posing next to an unidentified totem pole in Alert Bay, BC. The pole features two figures: a human figure on the bottom with outstretched arms, and a thunderbird on top.

Photograph of a woman posing next to an unidentified totem pole in Alert Bay, BC. The pole features two figures: a human figure on the bottom with outstretched arms, and a thunderbird on top.

Photograph of a woman posing next to an unidentified short totem pole in Alert Bay, BC. The pole features a single human figure with a hat.

Image is a posed portrait of a woman standing outdoors and wearing a short wool cape. Image appears to be reproduction that has been mounted on carte de visite. Inscription beneath image is illegible due to damage to emulsion on original image.

Photograph of a woman taken in the saoifa, entrance to the courtyard, where Tunisian women receive their visitors in the summer. The photograph was taken by Nadia Abu-Zahra in Sidi Ameur, the Sahel, Tunisia.

Photograph of a group of people, including a woman wearing a shemma cloth that has become dirty with wear. Shemma cloth is a hand woven material ubiquitous in Ethiopia, but particularly in northern Ethiopia. Lorna R. Marsden purchased an example of a shemma cloth designed for special occasions during her travels which she later donated to the Museum of Anthropology in 2016, but this image shows its typical and everyday use by women in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a wrap for head and bodies.