Totpavit

Totpavit

Totpavit

Former Tongva village in Olive, California

Totpavit, alternative spellings Totabit[1][2] and possibly Totavet,[3] was a Tongva village located in what is now Olive, California.[4] The village was located between the Santa Ana River and Santiago Creek.[5] It was part of a series of villages along the Santa Ana River, including Genga, Pajbenga, and Hutuknga.[5]

Mission records indicate that 11 people from the village were baptized, likely at Mission San Gabriel, from between 1781-1803, including 3 men, 7 women, and 1 child.[1] In 1978, it was indicated that the village site was probably buried under alluvium and that the village site had been occupied for thousands of years.[6]

The village's name derived from the word "tota," which was recorded as meaning "rock" in the Tongva language.[3]

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References

  1. [1]
    Papers on Great Basin Prehistory. University of California Archaeology Research Facility, Department of Anthropology. 1968. p. 138.
  2. [2]
    Martínez, Roberta H. (2009). Latinos in Pasadena. Charleston, SC: Arcadia. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-7385-6955-0. OCLC 402526696.
  3. [3]
    McLendon, Sally (1999). Cultural Affiliation and Lineal Descent of Chumash Peoples in the Channel Islands and the Santa Monica Mountains: Final Report, Volume 2. National Park Service. p. 3.
  4. [4]
    Grenda, Donn R.; Doolittle, Christopher J.; Altschul, Jeffrey H., eds. (1998). House pits and middens : a methodological study of site structure and formation processes at CA-ORA-116, Newport Bay, Orange County, California. Tucson, Ariz.: Statistical Research Inc. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-879442-66-5.
  5. [5]
    Catalysts to complexity : late Holocene societies of the California coast. Jon Erlandson, Terry L. Jones, Jeanne E. Arnold, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. 2002. pp. 64–65. ISBN 978-1-938770-67-8. OCLC 745176510.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  6. [6]
    Santa Ana River Main Stem and Santiago Creek: Environmental Impact Statement. 1978. p. 21.
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