86:15900-2188

(Documentary Artifact): One b/w negative of Mesa Grande Indian men on a float in a Cabrillo Day parade. Four men wearing feather headdresses with bodies and faces painted in white paint sit or stand atop a float. The float has a raised platform and is decorated with branches or brush. A man (whose face is out of the frame) wears a shirt, overalls and shoes and stands at the front of the float.

Notes on negative envelope:
86:15900-2188/ Davis Coll/ copy/ San Diego/ Mesa Grande Indians on/ float entered in Cabrillo Day/ parade/ Sept. 26/ 1913

According to additional information provided on 12/2011 by a member of the E.H. Davis Project Scholar Advisory Committee: Tatahuila dancers, the one on the far right seated with the white mustache resembles Narcisso LaChappa from Mesa Grande.