The Washo Indians, by S. A. Barrettorder of the Trustees, 1917 - 52 pàgines |
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aboriginal acorn bark Basin area Basin region basketry designs binding Border Finishes boulder mortar brush house buckskin California area Carson Catalog number CITY OF MILWAUKEE Cobble stone pestles conical considerable number cradle culture area design shown diagonal-twined technic Diameter 9.3 inches east eastern employed Finely woven foreshaft formerly Gardnerville grinding hoop implements inches 66.5 cm informants Lake Tahoe lake trout Length 6.8 inches literally straight line looped stirring stick Maidu mammals matca'ti meal brush Miwok mountains mush natural environment obsidian Paiute Paviotso Peeled rods pine nuts piñon nut pliable elements PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR PUBLIC MUSEUM Pyramid Lake rabbit boss River seed beater seen in plate sewing element shown in fig shown in plate Sierra Nevada signifies single-rod foundation slab house social organization species of pine Text Figures three-rod foundation tribes tsiña'm unpeeled usually WALKER LAKE Washo culture Washo Indians Washo territory western slope winnowing basket wooden bow
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Pàgina 3 - ... STATES. from 30 to 40 miles broad. To the east is the great Amargosa plain, and to the west the Panamint valley. The district is a part of the Great Basin region, with its myriads of short, lofty mountain ranges, separated from one another by broad plain-like valleys. In this vast region, stretching from the Wasatch range on the east to the Sierra Nevada on the west, are found some of the most remarkable geographic features on the face of the globe. The Sierra Nevada, rising from 10,000 to 14,000...
Pàgina 3 - Kaibab reservations and vicinity. The term Plateau culture area has been hitherto applied to this region, but In view of the fact that the term is, from a standpoint of physiography, a misnomer, and that the term Great Basin, is generally accepted as the name for this physiographic division of the continent, it seems best to adopt it for anthropology as well. Especially is this advisable since the name Is so perfectly descriptive of this region and since the cultural limits of Its inhabitants so...
Pàgina 3 - Shivwlts, and Kaibab reservations and vicinity. The term Plateau culture area has been hitherto applied to this region, but In view of the fact that the term is, from a standpoint of physiography, a misnomer, and that the term Great Basin, is generally accepted as the name for this physiographic division of the continent, it seems best to adopt it for anthropology as well. Especially is this advisable since the name Is so perfectly descriptive...
Pàgina 4 - Map 1. Showing the Washo territory and that of surrounding tribes. sequoia and the oak, whose acorns are used to some extent as food; thus introducing here a distinctly Californian element. The fauna of the two sections presented, in primitive times, similar differences. That of the arid region...
Pàgina 18 - ... burden basket, where a difference in technic or in fineness of weave and the resultant difference in use in each case calls for a special name. Basket tsina'm Burden baskets Coarsely woven, plain-twined technic mama'i Plate XIII, fig. 6. Coarsely woven, diagonal-twined technic tatuba'buli Plate XIII, figs.
Pàgina 15 - Cercis occidentalis, the bark of which furnishes a red element. This is obtained from the Miwok to the west as it is not an indigenous shrub to the Washo country, and is therefore sparingly used. The following tabulation gives the Washo names of these various materials : Willow hi'mu Unpeeled rods mi'mu Peeled rods agaiye'we...
Pàgina 21 - Practically any triangular design is referred to as "arrow-head", (matca'ti). The arrow-head design may be combined into a number of different, more complex figures. The simplest form of arrowhead design is a series of triangles such as is shown in figs. 8 and 9, and called respectively matca'tl eti, "arrow-head down", and matca'tl epus, "arrow-head up".
Pàgina 14 - BASKETRY. The Washo are quite justly renowned as makers of fine, coiled basketry. Certain of the Washo women make very smooth and excellent baskets and employ a great variety of designs. In many respects the basketry of the Washo closely resembles that of the Miwok to the west. Particularly is this...
Pàgina 2 - INTRODUCTION. The Washo Indians constitute a small group forming a distinct linguistic family and occupying a very small territory in the Sierra Nevada, bordering Lake Tahoe, and on the upper courses of the Carson and Truckee rivers. While prosecuting field work for the...