Publication Date
Summer 5-19-1958
Abstract
The Walapai Indians, an upland Arizona Yuman--speaking tribe, in historic times lived in northwestern Arizona. Their territory extended from the Colorado River on the North and West, to the Bill Williams Fork-Santa Maria River on the south, and the Cataract Creek drainage on the east. This same region, prehistorically, was occupied by the Cerbat Branch, a group included by archaeologists within the Patayan Root. Archaeologists, solely from surface surveys, have suggested a history of the Cerbat from about 700 to 1150 A.D. After that date no cultural data for the area were known until 1776, when the Franciscan Father Garces recorded the presence there of the Walapai. Furthermore, ethnographic information was limited essentially to a relatively superficial study done by students under the direction of A. L. Kroeber in 1929.
Document Type
Dissertation
Language
English
Degree Name
Anthropology
Level of Degree
Doctoral
Department Name
Anthropology
First Committee Member (Chair)
Florence Hawley Ellis
Second Committee Member
Frank Cummings Hibben
Third Committee Member
Willard Willams Hill
Recommended Citation
Euler, Robert Clark. "Walapai Culture-History." (1958). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/anth_etds/151
