Phoebe Maddux
Biography
(Source: Julian Lang, Ararapikva (1994))
Phoebe Maddux was born and raised at Íshipishi, the village located across the river from Ka'tim'îin. Her Indian name was Imkánvaan, "wild sunflower gatherer." Phoebe Maddux single-handedly helped save vast amounts of Karuk native knowledge through her extensive (more than five years) consulation with John P. Harrington, a linguist working with the Bureau of American Ethnology. Maddux often consulted with elders still living during the mid-1920s, learning songs, specific stories, medicine formulas, and other cultural information. She then transmitted them to Harrington. [His publications based on what she taught him include the 1932 books Karuk Indian myths and Tobacco among the Karuk Indians of California.]
Texts associated with Phoebe Maddux
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| Year | Title | Text ID | |
| 1932 | "Coyote Attends a Flower Dance at Orleans" | JPH_KIM-08 | |
| 1932 | "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" | JPH_KIM-10 | |
| 1930 | Coyote's Journey | JPH_KT-05 | |
| 1929 | "Bluejay Myth" | JPH_PHM-24-343a | |
| 1932 | The Name of Tobacco | JPH_TKIC-III.2 | |
| 1932 | Black Nightshade | JPH_TKIC-III.3 | |
| 1932 | Downslope and Upslope Tobacco | JPH_TKIC-III.4 | |
| 1932 | Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant | JPH_TKIC-III.5.A | |
| 1932 | Sense Characteristics | JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.a | |
| 1932 | Parts of the Tobacco Plant | JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g | |
| 1932 | Leaf | JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.h | |
| 1932 | Gum | JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.i | |
| 1932 | Phases of Flowering | JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.j.a1' | |
| 1932 | Seed | JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.k | |
| 1932 | They Knew That Seeds Will Grow | JPH_TKIC-IV.3 | |
| 1932 | But They Never Packed Seeds Home | JPH_TKIC-IV.4 | |
| 1932 | Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage | JPH_TKIC-IV.5 |