Baja California (Paipai) Indian Archaeological and Ethnographic Collections 1955-1959

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Baja California (Paipai) Indian Archaeological and Ethnographic Collections 1955-1959

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The Paipai Indians continue in present day to live in Baja California, Mexico in an area south-east of Ensenada. Materials in the Paipai collection were field collected from 1955 to 1959 and consist of ethnographic as well as archaeological pieces.

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University of California, Los Angeles. Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Archaeological Collections Facility

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History The Paipai Indians of Baja California are linguistically related to a number of Yuman language speaking bands known collectively as Kumeyaay or Tipai-Ipai (meaning "people"). The Spanish referred to them as Diegueno, after the Mission San Diego (literally meaning "little people of Diego.") In the sixteenth century at the time of first European contact, the Tipai-Ipai occupied nearly the entire southern portion of present s...