Exwanyawish: A Luiseño Sacred Rock

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" Exwanyawish: A Luiseño Sacred Rock "
True, D. L; Griset, Suzanne

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	940099
Doc. No	:	LA4qj7182q
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	True, D. L; Griset, Suzanne
Title & Author	:	Exwanyawish: A Luiseño Sacred Rock [Article]\ True, D. L; Griset, Suzanne
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Volume/ Issue Number	:	10/2
Date	:	1988
Abstract	:	This report presents ethnographic testimony collected 30-40 years ago by the senior author which pinpoints the location of Exwanyawish, and provides additional information concerning the pictographs located thereon. Initially, we had some concern about publicizing the exact location of this important feature, but we realized that although the site had been recorded archaeologically many years ago, its ethnographic significance had become confused. Many of the Luiseno elders who knew the details connected with the rock, its pictographs, and its mythological connections have since passed away, so it is important from an ethnographic perspective to fill in as many gaps as possible while the remaining carriers of this knowledge are alive.