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

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. ^ a b Papers on Great Basin Prehistory. University of California Archaeology Research Facility, Department of Anthropology. 1968. p. 138.
  2. ^ Martínez, Roberta H. (2009). Latinos in Pasadena. Charleston, SC: Arcadia. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-7385-6955-0. OCLC 402526696.
  3. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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)
  5. ^ House pits and middens : a methodological study of site structure and formation processes at CA-ORA-116, Newport Bay, Orange County, California. Donn R. Grenda, Christopher J. Doolittle, Jeffrey H. Altschul, United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Los Angeles District, United States. Food and Drug Administration. Tucson, Ariz.: Statistical Research, Inc. 1998. p. 17. ISBN 1-879442-66-3. OCLC 41262575.((cite book)): CS1 maint: others (link)
  6. ^ Santa Ana River Main Stem and Santiago Creek: Environmental Impact Statement. 1978. p. 21.

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