Pawona Witu

Pawona Witu
Nearest city Bishop, California
Area 1,080 acres (440 ha)
NRHP Reference # 75000428[1]
Added to NRHP October 14, 1975

Pawona Witu is an archeological site near Bishop in Inyo County, California that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. The listing included 1,080 acres (440 ha).[1] Its location is not disclosed.[1][2] Archeological sites are often listed on the National Register for their potential to yield knowledge in the future.

According to "The Indian Tribes of North America", a 1953 work by John R. Swanton (1873-1958), Pawona Witu was listed by Julian H. Steward (1902-1972) in 1933 as an Indian village site on Bishop Creek below Bishop, near Owens Valley.[3][4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "California State Parks Office of Historic Preservation: Pawona Witu".
  3. ↑ "Nevada extract from John Reed Swanton's The Indian Tribes of North America". The Northern Plains Archive Project. Retrieved 2013-04-11.
  4. ↑ Google book version of Swanton identifies the Steward (1933) article as "The Ethnography of the Owens River Paiute" in Archeaology and Ethnology v33 number 3, published by University of California


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