86:15900-1167A

(Documentary Artifact): One b/w negative of a view of a cemetery lit up at night by candles placed at graves. A group of women are gathered in the background.

Notes on negative envelope:
86:15900-1167A/ Davis Coll/ dup. Neg./ Candlelight grave ceremony/ Nov. 1939

According to additional information provided on 10/2011 by a member of the E.H. Davis Project Scholar Advisory Committee: As customary in the Kumeyaay-Diegueno Candle Lighting ceremony, religious leaders would pray in remembrance of past generations. Catholic Rosary would be the form of prayer in that era.