Gifford saw a variation of humal auyurl on the face of a nine or ten year old girl: within a large X, painted in brownish red on each cheek, were four Vs whose sides paralleled the sides of the X and opened outward (see cheeks of earliest documented Mohave clay figurine and early photograph of a Mohave woman).Īnother daily variation, seen on a man, had two black vertical stripes dropping down from each eye and from each corner of the mouth over a face painted entirely red. More complex patterns were evident when Edward Gifford visited the remote Cocopa in the early 1930s when everyone still painted their face.įor a fiesta, a man might paint his face red with a black X on each cheek, a -pattern known as humal auyurl. Likely, only the simpler patterns had survived into his boyhood. These Cocopa face painting drawings are based on recent schematic sketches by a middle-aged Cocopa man. Patterns for young men or for relatives of a deceased in the cremation ceremony. WORD-FOR-WORD EXCERPT from Paul's new book:Ĭocopa face painting include patterns for fiestas or funerals, in red or blue. REVIEW THIS BOOK (With Buy Now Info Link to ) The book also discusses the origin of CAVE ART in California, and the latest atomic accelerator testing of the ancient pigments used by the California Indians. This fully-researched book includes all facets of Native California pigments and paint, including physical, social, spiritual in great detail and reveals how the Indians turned yellow pigment red, and they made blue from white gypsum and black charcoal, and it gives many other recipes for Indian paint. Campbell's newest book, EARTH PIGMENTS AND PAINT: MEANING AND TECHNOLOGY. Note: These illustrations and writing are parts of Paul D. Campbell (four of 120 illustrations included in Paul's book). Mohave Mojave, Cocopah Cucapa, Chunut Yokuts Indian face painting illustrations by reseacher Paul D. CALIFORNIA INDIAN FACE PAINTING Mohave Cocopah Yokut Tribal Design Meaning Online Museum Research Native American face painting, Mohave Mojave, Cocopah Cucapa, Chunut Yokuts body paint of the California Indians of Southern California, northern Baja California, southwestern Arizona Yuman Indian tribes.