Southern Coastal California (Chumash & Gabrieleno) Indian Archaeolgical Collections

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Southern Coastal California (Chumash & Gabrieleno) Indian Archaeolgical Collections

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University of California, Los Angeles. Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Archaeology 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...