Coahuilla Indian funeral in the cemetery where Alesandro (of Ramona fame) is buried, ca.1896

Photograph of a Coahuilla Indian funeral in the cemetery where Alesandro (of Ramona fame) is buried, ca.1896. A group of about 30 men, women and children are gathered about a gravesite. Small picket fences surround some of the graves. Crosses mark many of the graves. A small grouping of large stones lay on the ground in the background. Scrub brush and grass grow in the foreground. Ramona was made famous in the novel of the same name by Helen Hunt Jackson