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- Collection: Mission Santa Clara Fall 2022
Two Ohlone men hunting. Painted by Louis Choris.
Photo by painter and photographer Mrs. Alice Iola Hare (1857-1926). According to Father Arthur Spearman this Indian "choza" or hut was part of…
Mission Santa Clara was the eighth one built in California. It was founded on January 12, 1777, by Father Thomas de la Pena.
The Santa Clara Mission in 1872, documented by Edward Vischer
In California’s past thousands of Native People in hundreds of different groups lived here — and their descendants still live here. The landscapes…
An image of a classical Thamien hut characteristic of the time when they were still residing in the land where Santa Clara University still stands.
How distinct language boundaries discovered by late 20th century linguists (left) have come to define the modern categorizations of smaller tribes…
Ohlone Indians in a Tule Boat in the San Francisco Bay 1822, by Louis Choris
Portrait heads of Indians of California by Louis Choris
Report prepared by missionaries Thomás de la Peña and Joseph Antonio Murguía for Fray Junípero Serra in December of 1777, the year that Mission Santa…