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Historical Bibliography Updated: October 12, 2021

The ethnobiology of the Papago Indians. Ethnological Studies in the American Southwest II.

Publication Details

University of New Mexico Bulletin, Biological Series, 4, No. 3, 1-84. 1935 CE.

"The Tohono O’odham ... are a Native American people of the Sonoran Desert, residing primarily in the U.S. state of Arizona and the Mexican state of SonoraTohono O’odham means "Desert People." The federally recognized tribe is known as the Tohono O'odham Nation.

"The Tohono O’odham have rejected the former name Papago, used by Europeans after being adopted by Spanish conquistadores from hearing other Piman bands call them this. The Pima were competitors and referred to the people as Ba꞉bawĭkoʼa meaning "eating tepary beans." That word was pronounced papago by the Spanish and adopted by later English speakers" (Wikipedia article on Tohono O'odham, accessed 03-2017). 

Digital facsimile of the 1935 work from the University of New Mexico at this link.

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Entry Number#9303
Permanent Linkhttps://hom-sveltekit.fly.dev/entry/11485
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLthe-ethnobiology-of-the-papago-indians-ethnological-studies-in-the-american-southwest-ii-

Geographic Context

Mentioned in annotation: Mexico