(Documentary Artifact): One b/w negative of people gathered around a fire. Probably not photographed at grave lighting ceremony as stated in notes on negative envelope, below.
Notes on negative envelope:
86:15900-585 THRU/ 588/ DAVIS COLL./ 86 DUP/ MESA GRANDE/ GRAVE LIGHTING CEREMONY/ STREAKS OF LIGHT CAUSED/ BY TORCH USED TO RELIGHT/ CANDLES (1500) BLOWN OUT/ BY WIND. EXPOSURE 20 TO/ 25 MIN., LENS OPENING F4/ 1908/ 4 NEGS
According to additional information provided on 10/2011 by a member of the E.H. Davis Project Scholar Advisory Committee: This may be a clothes-burning ceremony if it is associated with a death. This happens a few days before burial.
