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Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
Arts and Artists, Language Learning, Songs and Dance, Traditions
Summary
Joy to the World is a traditional Christmas Carol, this version is sung in the Cupeño language by artist Alyssa Kline.
Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
Arts and Artists, Language Learning, Songs and Dance, Traditions
Summary
This a traditional Christmas Carol sung in the Cupeño Language. The artist singing is Alyssa Kline.
Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
Arts and Artists, Language Learning, Songs and Dance, Traditions
Summary
Silent Night, a traditional Christmas carol, this version is sung in the Cupeño language, by artist Alyssa Kline.
Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
Arts and Artists, History and Current Events, Language Learning, Songs and Dance, Traditions
Summary
In December 2023 the Pala Senior Cupa Singers sang a variety of Cupeño version Christmas Songs; Silent Night, Joy to the World, Away in a Manger, and We Wish You a Merry Christmas.
Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program
Category
Animals, Arts and Artists, History and Current Events, Language Learning, Plants and Ethnobotany, Traditions
Summary
Gail Werner is a Pala Cupa Tribal Member and life long artist. This mural can be found in La Jolla Village of San Diego.
IMG-5339.jpg Cupa Cultural Center Baskets
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Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
Arts and Artists, History and Current Events, Place, Traditions
Summary
Pictures of baskets and other artifacts displayed in the Cupa Cultural Center, Pala, California
Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
Arts and Artists, History and Current Events, Plants and Ethnobotany, Stories, Traditions
Summary
A story in Mulu'wetam: The First People on page 96-97, about how the Cúpa women made different size baskets and how the would prepare their materials to be certain colors for the baskets.
Carmelita'sBasket-4029.jpg
Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
Arts and Artists, Language Learning, Plants and Ethnobotany, Traditions
Summary
Native American baskets worked on by Carmelita Myers Ryan, a Cupeño Indian that lived in Pala California. These baskets were being made from the Juncus plant ( Séyily ) and Deergrass plant ( Súul ).
Community
Pala Cupeño Revitalization Program, Cupa Cultural Center
Category
Arts and Artists, Traditions
Summary
This video is from Youtube (no sound) taken by Jay Levi in 1973-1974, showing Roscinda Nolasquez displaying her Grandmother Mercedes Nolasquez's baskets'. Then in the second part of video she displays technique, materials, and tool she utilized.