essay
Foothill Yokuts
Handbook of North American Indians. California • 8 • Published In 1978 • Pages: 471-484
By: Spier, Robert F. G..
Abstract
Spier writes an overview of the Foothill Yokuts of the Sierra Nevada foothills in Califonia. He describes their territory, environment, subsistence practices, technology, structures, settlement patterns, clothing, life cycle events, social and political organization, religion (especially the Mourning Ceremony and shamans), and their life in the twentieth century up to approximately 1970.
- Subjects
- Identification
- Sociocultural trends
- Cultural participation
- Mats and basketry
- Outbuildings
- Settlement patterns
- Utensils
- Wages and salaries
- Moieties
- Community heads
- Mourning
- Magicians and diviners
- Organized ceremonial
- culture
- Yokuts
- HRAF PubDate
- 2002
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Northwest Coast and California
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- Sarah Berry ; 2000
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- not specified
- Coverage Place
- Foothill Yokuts; California, United States
- Notes
- Robert F. G. Spier
- SuDoc no: 047-000-00347-4
- For bibliographical references see source 21:Anonymous
- LCCN
- 77017162
- LCSH
- Yokuts Indians