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Notes on Yokuts weather shamanism and the rattlesnake ceremony
Masterkey • 29 (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