Ohlone House Reconstruction

The Ohlone culture was relatively stable until the first Spanish soldiers and missionaries arrived with the double-purpose of Christianizing the Native Americans by building a series of missions and of expanding Spanish territorial claims.
Spanish mission culture soon disrupted and undermined the Ohlone social structures and way of life. Under Father Serra's leadership, the Spanish Franciscans erected seven missions inside the Ohlone region and brought most of the Ohlone into these missions to live and work. The Ohlone who went to live at the missions were called Mission Indians, and also neophytes. They were blended with other Native American ethnicities such as the Coast Miwok transported from the North Bay into the Mission San Francisco and Mission San José.

This photo was taken by a Mamiya 645 ProTL medium format film camera with a Mamiya-Sekor Zoom C 55~110 1:4.5 N lens using Kodak Portra 400 film, the negative scanned by an HP Scanjet G4050 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.