Both of these photographs touch upon the roles and depiction of women during the era of colonization. The photograph, Tortilla Maker, shows a woman sitting by herself while making tortillas. It appears as if she is waiting for someone to come home. The question arises as to whether she is simply fulfilling her womanly duties to cook for her family, or if she is a tortilla seller, as the woman is the seller of her product in the Indian photograph. The East Indian Milk Seller displays a woman carrying a bucket of milk on her head to sell. Both photographs depict the expectations that a woman had when it came to providing for her family. Whether the tortilla maker is selling the tortillas, or rather just making them for her family, the conclusion is that she is making them for someone else in order to either feed them, or sell them to produce an income. The Indian woman is holding the milk bucket on top of her head, probably to sell the milk to others in order to make a living. Many women had to find jobs that were easy enough to do, so they could still fulfill their other expected womanly duties simultaneously, such as cleaning the house and caring for the children.