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Southern Maidu (Nisenan) Field Notes (1928) (26 pages)
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Bancroft research, Nov. 21-22
Banc Film 2216 reel 67-69
Ethnological Documents Item 67-69.5 Original: CU-23-1
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_ Item #69 Littlejohn, Hugh W.
_. Southern Maidu (Nisenan) Field Notes. 1928. Five notebooks. ——
Note: as . was taking notes, . was also snapping jpg files of individual pages, beginning
with the earlier and ending with the later, all the Nlsenan-Nev City field notes were
copied. Good notes were taken on Colfax informants
Unfortunately there are no identifiers on the pre-NC, so eventually, . should go back and
make a pdf of the entire files. As I will be putting fieldnote pages numerically, one can
possibly guess at the informants or use as general knowledge.
Packet Notes #1
Gifford’s informants for Southern Maidu: Sué Thomson of Colfax and Susie Wallace (dead) .
Southern Maidu Religious Ceremonies Paper 1918
Jim Dick, 52 years old, born at Cool Station, El Dorado Co and later resident of Auburn
among others
1923 Captain John (Oite)-a shaman at Auburn
Bill Wallo[u]pe, Spanish Creek(Sam Kessler’s uncle) Same of “Placerville”
~ Dick Childs, NC
What he is looking for villages, with and without dancehouses; political units; food rights, list of
triblets or political unites; warfare among? boundaries with Miwok; Rabbit driver, ownership of
quail fences; ownership of fishing and hunting rights? Relations among villages, location
of;determinations of placement of sites.
page. 1/121 (done, almost verbatim)
“Was a village hostile or friendly to the neighboring villages.
“Where were villages located
How were homes placed?.
How many People?.
Where were dance houses
What determined site of villages? food supply? water? or elevation for defense? A spring?
clearing? Land burned over?
7. Agroup, acting as a unit, but divided into several settlements? .
8. How many houses to village?
9. Had villages definite boundaries? .. food rights, boundary signs .
10. What was status of the chief? was he rich? Where did he live? War trade food
page 2: orthography (for reference: print?
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July 10,1928 Mrs. Kessler, half: breed woman, wife of Sam of Camino
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