Cupeño
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The Cupeño are a Native American tribe of Southern California.
Cupeño rock mortars for grinding acorns
Mercedes Nolásquez, a Cupeño basket maker at Warner's Ranch, ca. 1900
Warner Springs, California
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Warner Springs is set of springs and a small unincorporated community in northern San Diego County, California. It is on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Cupeño
…is "Kuupangaxwichem" ("people who slept here"). They lived in two autonomous villages, Wilákalpa and Kúpa (or Cupa), located north of present-day Warner Springs, California. Their homelands extended to Agua Caliente, located east of Lake Henshaw in an area now crossed by State Highway 79 near Warner Springs. The 200-acre…
St Francis Mission Chapel
"Indians washing in hot springs, Agua Caliente, ca.1900"