Book
Handbook of Yokuts Indians
Bear State Books • Oildale, Calif. • Published In 1949 • Pages:
By: Latta, Frank Forrest.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a general ethnography of the Yokuts Indians of the San Joaquin Valley, California. Much of the information collected by the author for this book was obtained from aged native informants who remembered the old customs and traditions no longer in existence. The following subjects are covered: tribal geography, the Yowlumne, trade, dress and communication, houses and housekeeping, foodstuffs, games, hunting and fishing, basketry, artistry, language and names, stories and ceremonies, and Indian statements (a collection of biographies from various informants). Most of the photographs reproduced in this source are of poor quality primarily because of their age. The author, an amateur ethnologist, was the Director of the Kern County Museum at Bakersfield, California, where he taught school from 1915-1945. He became interested in the history of his home area at an early age, and as a result collected a great many documents, photographs, and statements of early pioneers and Indian informants pertinent to his historical interests.
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Educator
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1960
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1923-1948
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. mid-nineteenth century - 1948
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- San Joaquin Valley, California, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by F. F. Latta
- Includes index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 49000991
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yokuts Indians