NAGPRA2009-001 - archaeological find
Elk Hills Cemetery, Buena Vista Lake (historic Yokuts village adjacent)
United States - Buena Vista Lake, Kern County, California - North America
Archaeological datec. 1780–1818 CE
Function not recorded Candidate only
When Edwin Walker opened the Elk Hills cemetery beside Buena Vista Lake in 1935, the graves gave up more than five thousand objects — abalone-shell containers, beads, baskets — and among them a single fragment of a bullroarer. The cemetery served a Yokuts lakeshore village in the decades around 1800, when glass beads and buttons were already moving up the southern San Joaquin Valley.
- Object
- One 'bull roarer fragment' among 5,508 unassociated funerary objects from site P-15-000116 (CA-KER-116), excavated by Edwin F. Walker, 1935.
- Function
- Not recorded.
- Map confidence
- medium - Buena Vista Lake / Elk Hills locality, Kern County.
- Source location
- pp. 9625-9626