TRIBAL FACE PAINT Native American Indian

AUTHENTIC FACE PAINTING INFORMATION RESEARCH:

CALIFORNIA INDIAN FACE PAINT -- The pictures and writing in this section are parts of Paul Campbell's newest book (unreleased), EARTH PIGMENTS AND PAINT: MEANING AND TECHNOLOGY. His fully-researched book will include all facets of Native California pigments and paint, including physical, social, spiritual — in great detail — and will reveal how the Indians turned yellow pigment red, and about how they made blue from white gypsum and black charcoal, and it will give many other recipes for Indian paint. The book will also discuss the origin of CAVE ART in California, and the latest atomic accelerator testing of the ancient pigments used by the California Indians.

AUTHENTIC SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TRIBAL REGALIA:

Top: San Diego region Indigenous Cahuilla men pictured 1892 at the 350-year Cabrillo anniversary of "Discovery" in San Diego (possibly at the Indian encampment at 4th and A streets).

Notice their full body, chest, face and leg paint, feathered headdresses, painted bows, and thatched ewaas/kichas behind the group. The dark cloth draped around their waists also tells a story of mismatched culture between Aboriginal and immigrant standards of public decency.

Lower row: A 19th century Ipai kuseyaay medicine man (shaman) on left is wearing a tribal headdress adorned with owl and hawk feathers, and fiber net skirt with attached eagle feathers, in addition to full body painting. He is a Kumeyaay spiritual, ritual, medicine, Kumeyaay cultural leader of his time (19th century).

Paul Campbell captioned the old 19th century studio photo:

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

RECORDING THE HISTORY AND CULTURE:

Traditionally, Kumeyaay history and culture were passed down orally across generations through Singing and Storytelling, and recorded in painted pictographs and petroglyphs and granite sculptures.

These vessels -- passed generation to generation -- are how the Kumeyaay recorded and preserved their culture and history for future generations.

The Yoni granite sculpture background in this composited graphic was photographed at Indian Hill, Anza Borrego Desert State Park in 2004 -- notice the dark aged paint, it must have been all painted up in original celebrated form. The rare Polychrome olla was found in the late 1900s in western Imperial County. The Petroglyph rock was photographed by Kelly Washington in 2004 at Vii Kwame, a sacred mountain for many of the Yuman tribes.

DEEP DIVE into California Indian Culture...

INDIGENOUS CALIFORNIA Aboriginal Paint and Tribal Designs, authentic southwestern USA Native American tribal patterns motifs designs of North American Indians, pictures old and modern traditional arts and crafts, including Native California Indian war clubs, Southern California Indigenous primitive weaponry.