Ghost Dancing the Grand Canyon: Southern Paiute Rock Art, Ceremony, and Cultural Landscapes

Combining rock art studies with ethnohistory, contemporary ethnographic analysis, and the interpretations of people who share the cultural traditions being studied, this paper documents a rock art site in Kanab Creek Canyon that appears to have been the location of a Ghost Dance ceremony performed b...

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Published in:Current anthropology 2000-02, Vol.41 (1), p.11-38
Main Authors: Stoffle, Richard W., Loendorf, Lawrence, Austin, Diane E., Halmo, David B., Bulletts, Angelita
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
America and Arctic regions
Amerindians
Anthropology
Archaeology
Canyons
Ceramic cultures
Ceremonies
Cultural landscapes
Culture
Dance
Ethnography
Ethnohistory
Hualapai
Hualapai Tribe
Kanab Creek Wilderness
Native American dance
Native Americans
Native North Americans
North America
Paints
Paiute
Paiute Tribe
Pigments
Prehistory and protohistory
Religious dances
Rock art
Rock paintings
Shamans
Traditional dance
U.S.A
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Summary:Combining rock art studies with ethnohistory, contemporary ethnographic analysis, and the interpretations of people who share the cultural traditions being studied, this paper documents a rock art site in Kanab Creek Canyon that appears to have been the location of a Ghost Dance ceremony performed by Southern Paiute and perhaps Hualapai people in the late 1800s. Using the site as a point of departure, it focuses on the way in which synergistic associations among place, artifact, resources, events, and historic and contemporary Indian people contribute to the construction of a contextual cultural landscape.
ISSN:0011-3204
1537-5382
DOI:10.1086/300101