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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: August 28, 2020
Caption: Awatixa Xi'e Village Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (lower left) These earthlodges measure thirty to sixty feet in diameter - large enough for an extended family of five to fifteen people and their belongings, dogs, and a few of their best horses. At least five inches of earth covered a wooden framework of rafters and support posts.; (right) Fifty-one earthlodge depressions are clearly visible from the air. According to archaeological evidence, people occupied the site for centuries before the Awatixa built this village. They abandoned it after the smallpox epidemic of 1780, but later returned and built a new village at river's edge.
Submitted: December 10, 2020, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p556009
File Size: 3.639 Megabytes

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