Bokea (also, Boch-heaf ) is a former Pomo settlement in Mendocin o County , California ,[ 1] one of a number of Pomo settlements catalogued by Stephen Powers .[ 2] It was located in Rancheria Valley ; its precise location is unknown.[ 1]
The Boch-heaf band of Pomo are one of four bands of Pomo described by George Gibbs as livin g between Hopland and the coast; the other three are Moiya , Tabahtea, and Ubakhea .[ 3]
^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names In formation System: Bokea, California
^ Hodge, Frederick Webb, ed. (1910), Handbook of American In dians North of Mexico, Part 2 , Bulletin of the Smithsonian In stitution Bureau of American Ethnology, vol. 30, Washin gton, Govt. prin t. off, p. 277
^ Barrett, Samuel Alfred (1908), The Ethno-geography of the Pomo and Neighborin g In dians , University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 1, University of California Press, p. 178