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Honey Lake Paiute ethnographyarticle 1960 • Riddell, Francis A.
Northern Paiute • North America > Southwest and Basin
This source provides a generalized sketch of the ethnography of the Honey Lake Paiute or Wadßtkuht people, who are located in Lassen County, northeastern California. Data presented in the sour...Notes on Yokuts weather shamanism and the rattlesnake ceremonyarticle 1955 • Riddell, Francis A.
Yokuts • North America > Northwest Coast and California
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 contac...