| Edition |
2d ed., rev. and enl. |
| Description |
619 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 583-609. |
| Contents |
Elements of culture in native California / A. L. Kroeber -- The aboriginal population of upper California / S. F. Cook -- A new ecological typology of the California indians / R. L. Beals and J. A. Hester Jr. -- Some regional aspects of native California / S. J. Jones -- Califorian Indian physical types / E. W. Gifford -- Linguistic families of California / R. B. Dixon and A. L. Kroeber -- The history of native culture in California / A. L. Kroeber -- The western coast of North America / R. F. Heizer -- San Francisco bay shellmounds / N. C. Nelson -- Culture sequences in central California archaeology / R. K. Beardsley -- A suggested chronology for southern California coastal archaeology / W. J. Wallace 00 Antiquity of San Francisco Bay shellmounds / S. F. Cook -- Prehistory of the Santa Barbara / R. L. Olson -- Speculation on the prehistory of northwestern California / A. B. Elsasser and R. F. Heizer -- Rock art in California / Cambell Grant -- The Colorado River Yumans in 1775 / Pedro Font -- The Chumash indians of Santa Barbara / Pedro Fages -- The Yurok of Trinidad bay, 1851 / Carl Meyer -- The lone woman of San Nicolas island / Emma Hardacre -- Ishi, the last Yahi / T. T. Waterman -- The food problem in California / A. L. Kroeber -- Californian Balanophagy / E. W. Gifford -- Desert plant foods of the Coahuilla / David Prescott Barrows -- The value of insects to the California indians / E. O. Essig -- California basketry and the Pomo / A. L. Kroeber -- Miwok houses / S. A. Barrett and E. W. Gifford -- Fire-making of the wintu indians / George H. H. Redding -- Mines and Quarries of the indians of California / R. F. Heizer and A. E. Treganza -- Stone-Flaking of the Klamath River Yurok / Paul Schumacher -- The tribe in California / A. L. Kroeber -- Miwok lineages and the political unit in Aboriginal California / E. W. Gifford -- Yurok national character / A. L. Kroeber -- Yurok law and custom / A. L. Kroeber -- Modoc childhood / Verne F. Ray -- Mohave Warfare / Kenneth M. Stewart -- War stories from two enemy tribes / Walter Goldschmidt, George Foster, Frank Essene -- Aboriginal California and great basin cartography / R. F. Heizer -- Principal local types of the Kuksu cult / A. L. Kroeber -- The 1870 ghost dance for the dead / Stephen Powers -- The mourning ceremony of the Miwok, 1906 / C. Hart Merriam -- Yurok Shamanism / Robert Spott and A. L. Kroeber -- Hupa sorcery / William J. Wallace and Edith S. Taylor -- Migration and urbanization of the Indians of california / S. F. Cook -- Conflict between the California indian and white civilization / S. F. Cook -- Number and condition of California Indians today / R. F. Heizer and M. A. Whipple -- |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- California.
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Indians of North America. |
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California. |
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California -- Antiquities.
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Antiquities. |
| Added Author |
Whipple, Mary Anne.
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| ISBN |
0520017706 0520020316 (pbk.) |
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