HANDS OF TIME

Aged Native American Indian elder woman, MANUELA AGUIAR, PAI-PAI-KUMIAI, holds handmade dolls she made as a famous California Indian tribal ethnographic artist of Santa Catarina, Baja California, Mexico. The old woman's weathered hands and face show a long successful life of hard work in the high desert mountains of north west Mexico border region.

This photo is one image of an extended creative photo essay and community photojournalistic documentary Gary Ballard produced on the indigenous peoples of California, 2004-2007.

Photo by G. Ballard, San Diego, for www.kumeyaay.info.