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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 source pertain to: topography, culture history, tribal boundar...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 contact with missions in California. The author, an ethnologist,...