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Notes on Yokuts weather shamanism and the rattlesnake ceremony
Masterkey • 29 (1) • Published In 1955 • Pages: 94-98
By: Riddell, Francis A..
Abstract
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, did fieldwork among the Yokuts.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2002
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Northwest Coast and California
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Betty Potash ; 1960
- Field Date
- 1949
- Coverage Date
- not specified
- Coverage Place
- Koyeti Yokuts, central California, United States
- Notes
- By Francis A. Riddell
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 98)
- LCCN
- 29009308
- LCSH
- Yokuts Indians