for Old Town Newhall Association's Night Under the Stars Sept. 13 for SCVTV.com • Local Television for Santa Clarita
for Old Town Newhall Association's Night Under the Stars Sept. 13 for SCVTV.com • Local Television for Santa Clarita
Bowers Cave Artifacts
Tataviam Indians
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A treasure trove of artifacts, probably belonging to Tataviam Indians and used, in part, in religious ceremony, was discovered in 1884 in "Bowers Cave" in Hasley Canyon (now on the Chiquita Canyon Landfill's northeastern border). Most of the artifacts ended up in the Peabody Museum of American Ethnology at Harvard University, where this display was photographed.Tataviam Indians, a small group of speakers of a Takik dialect (Uto-Aztecan language family) were present in the Santa Clarita Valley by AD 500, around the time of the introduction of the bow and arrow.
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