essay
Ethnohistory of the village of Helo' on Mescalitan Island
Archaeological investigations at Helo' on Mescalitan Island, prepared by Lynn H. Gamble • Santa Barbara, Calif. • Published In 1990 • Pages: 2-1 to 2-11
By: Johnson, John R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Johnson uses ethnohistoric records to describe the village of HELO' from its first encounter with the Spanish by members of the Portolá expedition until it's abandonment around 1804. The village is compared with three other contemporary villages around the Goleta Slough: S'AXPILIL, HELIYIK, and 'ALKASH. Johnson also discusses the village of QWA, a Chumash village established near the site of HELO' after the Mission Period. Baptismal and marriage records and population figures are used to examine HELO's political ties with other Chumash villages, its sociopolitical boundaries, and its political ranking. Johnson dicusses the Chumash belief that the site of HELO' was considered a sacred place from the late nineteenth century into the twentieth century.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Place names
- Location
- Topography and geology
- History
- Settlement patterns
- Missions
- Sacred objects and places
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Late Southern California
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northwest Coast and California
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 231 BP - 195 BP (1769 A.D. - 1805 A.D.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- HELO' (CA-SBA-46) and the Goleta Slough region, Calif., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by John R. Johnson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 2-7 to 2-8)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- California--Antiquities