Tongva sweatlodge
Heritage Park in Santa Fe Springs CA. is a great place to take the family, bring a picnic lunch and learn a little something about the Gabrielino/Tongva people. They also have a full sized train “Kids can even ring the bell”. And a really cool museum.
Went to the Agua Caliente Cultural Museum it was smaller than I expected, but they are raising funds to build a new 110,000 sq. foot museum facility in the heart of Palm Springs. They did have some nice baskets and artifacts belonging to the Cahuilla people.
The photos below were from a Heritage building next door.
Cahuilla Indian boy and woman grinding mesquite seed pods in a stone mortar.
Had a wonderful vacation in Palm Springs, CA. Took some great pics of the local flora and a few Indian artifacts.
These pics were taken at the Moorten Botanical Gardens on South Palm Canyon Drive.
Hi everyone. Going to Palm Springs, California with my mom and dad, their dog Mr. Russel, my wife, two daughters, my niece and myself. Hope to bring back some nice pictures. I plan to visit the Agua Caliente Cultural Museum while I’m there. They are supposed to have a nice display of baskets and artifacts belonging to the Cahuilla Indians who have lived in that region for over 3,000 years.
For more info on the museum go to www.accmuseum.org
My wife, daughter and myself took a day trip to Santa Barbara, California several years ago. There is a lot to do there, we visited the Natural History Museum, Mission Santa Barbara, and the Santa Barbara Zoo. I wanted to learn a little bit more about the Chumash people and the museum had a beautiful exhibit.
Whale skeleton at the entrance to the museum. Pygmy mammoth found on Santa Rosa Island.
Chumash Artifacts
Chumash woman and man.
Curious Bluebird Stream behind the museum.
Beautiful rose garden in front of Mission Santa Barbara.
My wife took a lot of these pretty pictures.
These are a few pics from the La Brea Tars Pits. Wooly Mammoth, Ground Sloth, Prehistoric Bison.
Prehistoric Ground Sloth, and Bison
This is the tower at the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles. It is the oldest museum in Los Angeles and houses one of the finest collections of Native American artifacts in existence. Galleries here feature the Native American people from the Plains, Southwest, California, and the Northwest coast. Unfortunately the museum is closed for restoration and is due to open in 2013. This was one of my favorite places to visit. I hope to visit again in 2013.
Outside the museum, there is a Spanish cannon in the lower left. And downtown Los Angeles on the horizon.
Mortar stone and metate in the garden area.
One of the many dioramas at the museum.
These pictures were taken at the Los Angeles Arboretum a few years ago. The Arboretum is a 127 acre botanical garden and historical site. Near one of the spring fed lakes was the Tongva/Gabrielino village called Aleupkigna.
I have always been interested in the mysterious monoliths on Easter Island called Moai. This miniature version is at the Long Beach Aquarium in California. It was donated to the Aquarium by the original descendants of the Island.
Malaga Cove
Malaga Cove just south of Redondo Beach, California was partially excavated by the Southwest Museum in 1936 and is also the site of the Gabrielino Indian village Chowigna as listed by Hugo Reid. Hugo Reid was a rancher who married a Mission Indian woman named Victoria. A pioneer Anthropologist he recorded primary information on the rapidly dying Tongva/Gabrielino culture.
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