Yokuts and western Mono ethnography
book chapter 1948 • Gayton, A. H. (Anna Hadwick)

Yokuts • North America > Northwest Coast and California
This document was compiled during field trips made during the years 1925-1930, as well as from the field notes of Mrs. A. Rogers (in reference to the Chukchansi), and other published materials on the Yokuts and Western Mono. The material is well orga...

Culture-environment integration
article 1946 • Gayton, A. H. (Anna Hadwick)

Yokuts • North America > Northwest Coast and California
This paper deals with the relationship of cultural and environmental integration in Yokuts and Western Mono society. In describing this relationship, Gayton indicates how the environment functions as a cultural stabilizer in the society, and may even...

Yokuts and western Mono pottery-making
Book 1929 • Gayton, A. H. (Anna Hadwick)

Yokuts • North America > Northwest Coast and California
This is a study of the methods and techniques of pottery-making by the Yokuts and Western Mono Indians of California, which are treated as being essentially identical in nature within these two groups. The information in this paper was obtained by th...

Yokuts-Mono chiefs and shamans
Book 1930 • Gayton, A. H. (Anna Hadwick)

Yokuts • North America > Northwest Coast and California
The material for this document was collected by the author for the Department of Anthropology, University of California, during various field trips made between the years 1925-1928. In this study, the writer's primary concern is with the powers and s...

Estudillo among the Yokuts
essay 1936 • Gayton, A. H. (Anna Hadwick)

Yokuts • North America > Northwest Coast and California
The material for this article was obtained from the diary of Lieutenant José María Estudillo, commandant of a party of Spaniards who in the year 1819 penetrated into the San Joaquin valley of California on a missionizing expedition. Through the effor...

Culture-environment integration
essay 1976 • Gayton, A. H. (Anna Hadwick)

Yokuts • North America > Northwest Coast and California
Gayton discusses the Yokuts (mainly the Wukchumni) and their neighbors, the Western Mono, as one cultural entity. However, only the Yokuts were indexed for OCM (Outline of Cultural Materials) category codes. As Gayton states, 'Without emphasizing the...

Yokuts and Western Mono myths
book chapter 1940 • Gayton, A. H. (Anna Hadwick) & Newman, Stanley S.

Yokuts • North America > Northwest Coast and California
The part processed first presents one myth as a representative type of Yokuts literature. The style is then discussed by the authors, first in its aspects which are the result of or at least reflect the limitations of the language. Then, the narrativ...