Historical initiation combining concealed spirit representation, feigned death and bodily ordeals.
Material type
Initiatory rite
Restricted to
Adult men and boy initiates in the earlier ceremonial house; the later hesi account bars women, while the earlier rite has some scenes witnessed by mothers
Restriction mechanism
controlled_access, violence_or_threat
Stated reason
The source does not establish a participant-stated reason for restricting access
Tradition origins
Not recorded
Recorded practice status
Unknown
Status as of
Not recorded
Status claims
Not recorded
Disclosure dates, source publication dates, tradition origins and dates of practice are separate.
What this disclosure covers
Introduction and Long Valley initiation/hesi passages at pp. 139, 223–225.
Retrospective local testimony collected in 1931; no pan-Patwin inference.
Captured the complete institutional PDF. Read the introduction at printed p. 139 and the Long Valley account at pp. 223–225; visually checked p. 225 (PDF p. 94). The introduction dates interviews to summer 1931 and identifies the Long Valley interlocutors. Retrospective reports were not relabelled as Loeb’s witnessed performances.
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 33(2), pp. 139–232; issued 3 February 1933. The comparative sections on other Patwin and Maidu groups were not treated as one uniform rite. Rights status was not established through a copyright or renewal assessment.
Feigned death is explicit in the text. The passage is not evidence of killing and resurrecting children; it does not establish that every bodily act was harmless.
SRC-0110: Source authenticity is probable; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0110: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
SRC-0110: The source text's rights have not been established.
ARTF-0018: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions.
CLM-0219 · Content
Loeb separately reports flint scratching that drew blood and left marks representing the preceding stabbings.
Claim support
Single source
Record review
Reviewed
Period
Long Valley historical forms recounted in 1931, published 1933
Printed p. 225 visually checked. The source distinguishes feigned death from reported physical injury; the injury report itself remains single-source retrospective testimony.
SRC-0110: Source authenticity is probable; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0110: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
SRC-0110: The source text's rights have not been established.
ARTF-0018: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions.
CLM-0220 · Content
The account says some boys tried to get away during the performance and were rounded up by kuksu impersonators.
Claim support
Single source
Record review
Reviewed
Period
Long Valley historical forms recounted in 1931, published 1933
Preserves different stages and historical forms rather than treating women as absent from every part of one uniform ceremony.
SRC-0110: Source authenticity is probable; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0110: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
SRC-0110: The source text's rights have not been established.
ARTF-0018: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions.
Evidence qualifications
SRC-0110 · source_authenticity_probable: Source authenticity is probable; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0110 · source_without_content_hash: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
SRC-0110 · source_rights_unknown: The source text's rights have not been established.
ARTF-0018 · artifact_partial: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions.
Reviewed means checked against a source. It does not establish source authenticity, independent corroboration or present-day practice.
Item notes
Scope basis: explicit initiation and exclusions in SRC-0110, pp. 223–225. Distinguish performed death from reported physical injury, and the earlier thunder ceremony from the later hesi form. Retrospective testimony is not direct observation by Loeb.
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