COCOPA INDIAN FULL BODY PAINT

Paul Campbell's research yielded rare California Indian historical pictures such as these antique turn-of-the-centry professional studio portraits of a young Indian boy with full body paint , shell and glass beaded necklaces, and two California Indian men wearing loin clothes, body paints and holding antique 1800s Indian bow and arrows. Paul Campbell's book contains a whole chapter of full-page historical pictures with detailed captions about historic Old Town San Diego County Indians.

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Left Cocopah historical photos, page 117 of book (full-page photo), Painted Surfaces and Spiritual Power:

Painted bodies, Cocopa men with long bow and long carrizo cane arrows with tufted fletch and long blunt foreshaft points. The same likely scraping or removing of paint with the fingernails found on right photograph is seen on the body of the man to the left. Very old photograph. (From collection of Anita Alvarez de Williams).

Right historical Cocopa picture, page 116 of book (full-page photo), Painted Surfaces and Spiritual Power:

Painted Cocopa child. Note the design that results from scraping paint away with fingernails. Very old photograph. (From collection of Anita Alvarez de Williams).

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BUY THIS BOOK NOW on amazon.com Photos and text courtesy of Paul D. Campbell, author of SURVIVAL SKILLS OF NATIVE CALIFORNIA, where the KUMEYAAY.INFO excerpted material was originally published. Paul's book features living (and deceased) Native American California Indigenous people of the greater San Diego area, and details their traditional hunting, weapons and aboriginal survival methods...Paul's book is available for sale at Shumup Ko Hup Indian store WEBSITE HOWKA.COM.