Peabody Museum, Harvard University
Home of the Bowers Cave Artifacts

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On May 2, 1884, McCoy and Everette Pyle, a pair of young ranchers, discovered a cave in the Hasley Canyon area that contained the best known assemblage of religious and other artifacts of the Tataviam Indians, who populated the Santa Clarita Valley from about A.D. 450 to the 19th Century. Sold to Dr. Steven Bowers, for whom the cave was named, most of the collection found its way to the Peabody Museum of American Ethnology at Harvard University. This is the entrance to the Peabody Museum as it appeared in 1968.

Read more about Bowers Cave here.

Photograph by Ted Lamkin.