Isabel T. Kelly's Southern Paiute Ethnographic Field Notes, 1932-1934
edited by Catherine S Fowler and Darla Garey-Sage
University of Utah Press, 2016 eISBN: 978-1-60781-503-7 | Paper: 978-1-60781-502-0 Library of Congress Classification E99.P2K45 2016 Dewey Decimal Classification 979.0049745769
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
University of Utah Anthropological Paper No. 130
This publication presents the first volume (Las Vegas) of the early ethnographic field work of anthropologist Isabel T. Kelly. From 1932 to 1934, Kelly interviewed thirty Southern Paiute people from southeastern California, southern Nevada, and southern Utah about “the old ways.” During this time, she filled thirty-one notebooks, made several maps, took roughly fifty photographs, collected nearly 300 ethnobotanical specimens, purchased and shipped over 400 ethnographic artifacts to museums, and traveled more than 7,000 miles. Her notes comprise the most extensive primary ethnographic documentation of Southern Paiute/Chemehuevi lifeways of the middle to late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries existing today.
Although Kelly intended to publish these notes, she was unable to before her death. Fowler and Garey-Sage have now synthesized the first set of these handwritten field notes and sketches, providing commentary and illustrations to put them in context for the modern reader. Kelly’s data, most of which could not be gathered anew today, are offered here for the use of generations to come.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Catherine S. Fowler is professor of anthropology emerita at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Darla Garey-Sage is deputy director of the Nevada Rock Art Foundation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Orthographic Note
Abbreviations
Introduction by Catherine S. Fowler
1. Territorial Boundaries and Neighbors
2. Camps, Settlements, and Other Places
3. Subsistence
4. Gardening
5. Material Culture
6. Houses and Other Structures
7. Clothing and Personal Adornment
8. Social and Political Organization
9. Natural and Supernatural Worlds
10. Games and Amusements
11. Medicines, Pipes, and Smoking
12. Music, Songs, Dances, and Ceremonies
13. Trade, Transportation, and Travel
14. Sacred and Historical Traditions
Appendix: Place-Names in Kelly’s Las Vegas Region
References Cited
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Isabel T. Kelly's Southern Paiute Ethnographic Field Notes, 1932-1934
edited by Catherine S Fowler and Darla Garey-Sage
University of Utah Press, 2016 eISBN: 978-1-60781-503-7 Paper: 978-1-60781-502-0
University of Utah Anthropological Paper No. 130
This publication presents the first volume (Las Vegas) of the early ethnographic field work of anthropologist Isabel T. Kelly. From 1932 to 1934, Kelly interviewed thirty Southern Paiute people from southeastern California, southern Nevada, and southern Utah about “the old ways.” During this time, she filled thirty-one notebooks, made several maps, took roughly fifty photographs, collected nearly 300 ethnobotanical specimens, purchased and shipped over 400 ethnographic artifacts to museums, and traveled more than 7,000 miles. Her notes comprise the most extensive primary ethnographic documentation of Southern Paiute/Chemehuevi lifeways of the middle to late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries existing today.
Although Kelly intended to publish these notes, she was unable to before her death. Fowler and Garey-Sage have now synthesized the first set of these handwritten field notes and sketches, providing commentary and illustrations to put them in context for the modern reader. Kelly’s data, most of which could not be gathered anew today, are offered here for the use of generations to come.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Catherine S. Fowler is professor of anthropology emerita at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Darla Garey-Sage is deputy director of the Nevada Rock Art Foundation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Orthographic Note
Abbreviations
Introduction by Catherine S. Fowler
1. Territorial Boundaries and Neighbors
2. Camps, Settlements, and Other Places
3. Subsistence
4. Gardening
5. Material Culture
6. Houses and Other Structures
7. Clothing and Personal Adornment
8. Social and Political Organization
9. Natural and Supernatural Worlds
10. Games and Amusements
11. Medicines, Pipes, and Smoking
12. Music, Songs, Dances, and Ceremonies
13. Trade, Transportation, and Travel
14. Sacred and Historical Traditions
Appendix: Place-Names in Kelly’s Las Vegas Region
References Cited
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