Landscape in Palm Cañon, looking along the palm filled gorge towards scrub-covered hillside: 'Across the tops of a luxuriant growth of palms the view sweeps away to the summit of San Jacinto, which attains an elevation of 10,000 feet.'
Cahuilla house in the desert. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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General view of an open-ended brushwood house and fenced enclosure: 'The Desert Cahuilla are found on several small reservations in their former habitat, the upper end of Salton sink, the greater part of which is below sea-level. They subsisted principally on rabbits and other rodents, and mesqu...
Andrés Cañon. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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View looking up a stream, with an Indian woman in the foreground kneeling to fill a water pot: "Near Andres cañon, south of Palm Springs, was Painik, the winter residence of a branch of the Palm Cañon Cahuilla.'
A Diegueño home. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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General view of a reed-thatch house in modern style: 'The Diegueños, a Yuman division formerly inhabiting practically the whole of San Diego county, are now found on about a dozen small reservations. Although they were not formerly agriculturists like the Colorado River Yumans, many of them take...
Diegueño house at Campo. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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General view of a reed-built hut, more crudely constructed than the preceding and with a woman and dog seated on the ground in front: 'Campo reservation is only a few miles from the Mexican boundary.'