Journal of the Southwest, September 22nd, 2000
My first contact with the Seris was in the early 1960s, when my father worked for the Ministry of Hydraulic Resources. On trips to inspect wells along the Hermosillo coast he would gather firewood to sell in Barrio Cinco dc Mayo. Bahia Kino was where I met them, in the area known today as Kino Nuevo. At the foot of some dunes stood a small Seri hamlet of ocotillo-branch shacks covered with old rags and cardboard. The layout was completely disorderly, and there I saw Chico Romero, a tall, dark man with long, braided hair. Over his pants he wore a "skirt" cinched up with a cowboy belt and a bu...
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