Case file · Folklore / legend
Chinigchinix religion recorded
Around 1825 Franciscan friar Gerónimo Boscana at Mission San Juan Capistrano wrote 'Chinigchinich', an account of the beliefs of the Acjachemen and Tongva about the lawgiver Chinigchinix and the use of toloache (datura) in initiation.
1825 CE · 33.50, -117.66 · status: official
The account
Published in English in 1846, it is one of the earliest ethnographies of a California people, though written from a missionary's viewpoint.