View of a Cahuilla Indian graveyard showing Ramona at Alessandro's grave, ca.1900
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- Source:
- University of Southern California
- Collection:
- California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
- Date:
- circa 1900
- Description:
- Photograph of a view of a Cahuilla Indian graveyard showing Ramona at Alessandro's grave, ca.1900. The cemetery is full of small wooden grave markers in the shape of crosses. A handful of graves are surrounded by wooden picket fences. There are several mourners visible, including a woman bending over in the foreground and a man sitting on a rock at right. There is a large rock formation in the background at left. Ramon and Alessandro were Cahuilla Indians upon whom Helen Hunt Jackson based her book Ramona.
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- Public Domain Mark
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