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Notes on Yokuts weather shamanism and the rattlesnake ceremony

Masterkey29 (1)Published In 1955 • Pages: 94-98

By: Riddell, Francis A..

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article describes a rainmaking and rattlesnake ceremony witnessed by a half-Mexican half-Yokuts informant when he was a boy. It also includes a short paragraph on his grandmother's contact with missions in California. The author, an ethnologist, did fieldwork among the Yokuts.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Magic
Magicians and diviners
Organized ceremonial
Missions
Ethnozoology
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Yokuts
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
2002
RegionThe area the document pertains to
North America
Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
Northwest Coast and California
Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
article
Evaluation
Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
Ethnologist
Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
5: Excellent Primary Data
AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
Betty Potash ; 1960
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1949
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
not specified
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Koyeti Yokuts, central California, United States
NotesAdditional notes
By Francis A. Riddell
Includes bibliographical references (p. 98)
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
29009308
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Yokuts Indians