INDIAN FIRE Pictures

Native American Indian fire picture in the Mexican tribal village of Santa Catarina, Baja California, a Pai Pai Indian family starts an Indian fire at dusk in the high deserts of rural Mexico.

This fire picture was photographed in early February when the nights are longest and coldest in the high Mexican desert village.

The Native Californians were probably looking for light and social activity to help pass the long (and cold) desert night -- since the tribal Indian village has no wired electricity for lights or heating, and no TV, no plumbing, no computers, no stereo to pass the time.

It seems like pretty soon after the sun goes down, they pile up in blankets for the night and STOKE their wood-burning heating stoves before the crack of dawn to maintain their cooking fires for breakfast.

POTTERY Firing Burn Pit:

BURN PIT: Pictured at 11PM on May 20, 2005 -- with an 111-second exposure on a tripod -- with only the full moon and stars as the light sources -- this night scene of a 21st century ethnographic ceramic pottery maker's burn pit shown near the end of manufacturing cycle on an indigenous high desert hillside.

Potters do their burns on windless nights to maintain as steady natural firing temperatures as possible -- breezes cause heat fluctions and risk cracking the clay and ruining the batch.

See BURN PIT for more pictures, more details about this scene:

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