Southern Diegueño house. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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General view of a reed-thatch cabin: 'Linguistically the Diegueños fall into a northern and southern group. The variation, however, is not so great as to prevent conversation between individuals of different division. The southern dialect is spoken at Campo, La Posta, Manzanita, Cuyapipe, and La...
View of a Mono winter shelter built of brushwood, with a collection of woven basketry arranged in front and mountains in the background: 'The Mono inhabit east-central California from Owens lake to the head of the southerly affluents of Walker river. The snow-capped Sierra Nevada rises abruptly ...
Shores of Walker Lake. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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View along the lakeshore, with an man fishing at the water's edge in the foreground: 'Walker lake, one of numerous saline lakes remaining from a great inland sea that once covered western Nevada and northeastern California, is the seat of a major division of the Paviotso. In the western corner o...
The primitive artist — Paviotso. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Showing a young Indian man posed in the act of painting on the rock face: 'A side of the glaciated bowlder near the southwestern shore of Walker lake is covered with phallic symbols in faded red.'