CALIFORNIA POTS Ollas Pottery

California Indian pottery maker Margarita Castro Albañez displays one of her finished pit-fired Native American Pai Pai pots ollas from her Santa Catarina rancho, Baja California, Mexico. The female indigenous Pai-pai elder is an ethnographic artist of the Santa Catarina ejido community in Mexico.

Doña Margarita Castro Albañez is an indigenous ethnobotanist consultant featured in Michael Alan Wilken's 2012 SDSU Anthropology Master of Arts Thesis.

Yuman Language Event on Video Translated real time audio: Paipai, Cucapá, Mexican Spanish, Cahuilla, English. Cultural Language Event, c.1994, Santa Barbara Natural History Museum. Features indigenous speakers, storytellers and dancers of Norte de Baja California, Mexico, and Southern California, USA.

BAJA SPEAKERS Pictured (roughly l-r):

Gloria Castañeda, Kumiai
Maria Emes, Kumeyaay (farewell song)
Juan Alvañez, Pai-Pai (story, singing)
Margarita Castro, Pai-Pai
Juan Aguiar, Kumiai
Josefina Ochurte, Kiliwa-PaiPai
Juan Bernardo Aldama, Kumiai
Benito Peralta, Pai-Pai (PaiPai-Spanish translator)
Alvino Siva, Cahuilla (guest bird singer storyteller)
Inocencia Gonzalez, Cucapá
Manuela Aguiar, Kumiai-PaiPai

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