(Documentary Artifact): One b/w negative of a group of mourners gathered for the burial of Incarnacion Maro at the Mesa Grande cemetery. A man holds a large cross near the center of the group.
Notes on negative envelope:
86:15900-1243-1244/ Davis Coll./ dup. Neg./ Mesa Grande/ Indian group observing burial of Incarnacion Maro at cemetery/ ?/ 2 Negs.
According to additional information provided on 10/2011 by a member of the E.H. Davis Project Scholar Advisory Committee: The Black Cross would have led the funeral procession and been carried by a close male relative to the deceased. The crowd is primarily wearing dark colors, a mourning practice customary to Kumeyaay funeral.
