Various religious-themed scenes (known as the "Munras murals") were painted by the local Salinan Indians under Munras' direction.
Sapir included it in a subfamily of Hokan, along with Chumash and Seri; this classification has found its way into more recent encyclopedias and presentations of language families, but serious supporting evidence has never been presented.
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The Salinan people were named after the Salinas River by Robert Latham (needs documentation)(1856) and John Powell (1891).
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