Coahuilla Indian funeral in the cemetery where Alesandro (of Ramona fame) is buried, ca.1896 (CHS-3834)

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Coahuilla Indian funeral in the cemetery where Alesandro (of Ramona fame) is buried, ca.1896 (CHS-3834)

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Coahuilla Indian funeral in the cemetery where Alesandro (of Ramona fame) is buried, ca.1896
Photograph of a Coahuilla Indian funeral in the cemetery where Alesandro (of Ramona fame) is buried, ca.1896. A group of about 30 men, women and children are gathered about a gravesite. Small picket fences surround some of the graves. Crosses mark many of the graves. A small grouping of large stones lay on the ground in the background. Scrub brush and grass grow in the foreground. Ramona was made famous in the novel of the same name by Helen Hunt Jackson.
Call number: CHS-3834
Photographer: James, George Wharton
Filename: CHS-3834
Coverage date: circa 1896
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 3834
Microfiche number: 1-172-
Archival file: chs_Volume95/CHS-3834.tiff
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): cemeteries
Repository email: [email protected]
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1896
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Legacy record ID: chs-m16411; USC-1-1-1-14072
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Subject (file heading): Indians -- Ramona -- Subjects
Subject (lcsh): Indians of North America; Cahuilla Indians; Funeral rites and ceremonies
Subject: Ramona; Mission Indians; Cahuilla Indians; Indians -- Mission -- Cahuilla; Coahuilla Indians; Coahuilla, Mission Indians -- Ramona

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