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New and Used Books on California Indian
Archaeology, Ethnology and Mythology
Last update: 11 January 2010
New & In-print Titles
- de Angulo, Jaime. Indian Tales, 1959 edition, 2003 printing, A California Legacy Book, Heyday Books, paper, 257 pp. $13
- de Angulo, Gui. The Old Coyote Of Big Sur: The Life of Jaime de Angulo, 2004, 2nd printing. 458 pages, notes, index, and bibliography. $17
One of the most interesting and unusual of the early students of American Indian languages was Jaime de Angulo.
Born in Paris of Spanish parents, he came to the United States in1906, at the age of eighteen.
After a period as a cowboy in Colorado, a prison gang foreman in Honduras, and then as a medical student and researcher in genetics, he found his true work in the study of language.
He is best known, however, for his two books on California Indian life, Indians in Overalls, and Indian Tales, first given as a series of broadcasts over KPFA radio, Berkeley, in 1949.
He is also known for his poetry.
The author, daughter of Jaime de Angulo, is a photographer, painter and writer living in Berkeley.
She is known for having photographed the artists and writers of the Beat Generation in San Francisco.
- Bean, Lowell John, and Thomas Blackburn, editors. Native Californians: A Theoretical Retrospective, 1976 (Sixth printing), Ballena Press, paper, 453 pp. $22.50
- Some Explanations for the Rise of Cultural Complexity in Native California with Comments on Proto-Agriculture and Agriculture, Lowell John Bean & Harry Lawton
- Ecology and Adaptive Response Among the Tolowa Indians of Northwestern California, R.A. Gould
- Culture-Environment Integration: External References in Yokuts Life, Anna H. Gayton
- Social Organization in Native California, Lowell John Bean
- Social Organization and Status Differentiation Among the Nomlaki, Walter Goldschmidt
- Yokuts-Mono Chiefs and Shamans, Anna H. Gayton
- Ceremonial Integration and Social Interaction in Aboriginal California, Thomas Blackburn
- Flexibility in Sib Affiliation Among the Diegueno, Katharine Luomala
- The Pomo Kin Group and the Political Unit in Aboriginal California, Peter H. Kunkel
- Chumash Inter-Village Economic Exchange, Chester King
- The Socio-Psychological Significance of Death Among the Pomo Indians, B.W. Aginsky
- Mohave Soul Concepts, George Devereux
- Emphasis on Industriousness Among the Atsugewi, Thomas R. Garth, Jr.
- Religion and Its Role Among the Luiseno, Raymond White
- The Development of a Washo Shaman, Don Handelman
- Power and Its Applications in Native California, Lowell John Bean
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Bean, Lowell John, and Harry Lawton. The Cahuilla Indians of Southern California, 1965 (Sixth revised printing, November 1995), Malki Museum Press, Malki Museum Brochure No. 1, paper, 12 pp. $5
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Blackburn, Thomas C., and Kat Anderson, editors.
Before the Wilderness: Environmental Management by California Indians.
1993, Ballena Press, paper, 476 pp.
$32.50
- Managing the Domesticated Environment, Thomas Blackburn & Kat Anderson
- Some Explanations for the Rise of Cultural Complexity in Native California with Comments on Proto-Agriculture and Agriculture, Lowell Bean & Harry Lawton
- Patterns of Indian Burning in California: Ecology and Ethnohistory, Henry Lewis
- Vegetation Burning by the Chumash, Jan Timbrook, John Johnson, David Earle
- Native Californians as Ancient and Contemporary Cultivators, Kat Anderson
- 'The Basket is in the Roots, Thats Where it Begins', David Perri & Scott Patterson
- Contemporary California Indian Basketweavers and the Environment, Bev Ortiz
- Managing Oaks and the Acorn Crop, Helen McCarthy
- Quality Food: The Quest for Pine Nuts in Northern California, Glenn Farris
- Bow Staves Harvested from Juniper Trees by Indians of Nevada, Philip Wilke
- Fuel Use and Resource Management: Implications for the Study of Land Management in Prehistoric California and Recommendations for a Research Program, Chester King
- Ritual Management of Salmonid Fish Resources in California, Sean Sezey & Robert Heizer
- Agriculture Among the Paiute of Owens Valley, Harry Lawton, Philip Wilke, Mary DeDecker, & William Mason
- Kumeyaay Plant Husbandry: Fire, Water, and Erosion Control Systems, Florence Shipek
- In Retrospect, Henry Lewis
- Burrows, Jack. Black Sun of the Miwok. First Edition, 2000, University of New Mexico Press, cloth + dj, 23 b/w photos, 171 pp. $20
- Bean, Lowell John, Sylvia Brakke Vane, and Jackson Young.
The Cahuilla Landscape: The Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains.
1991, Ballena Press, paper, 116 pp..
$20
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Bean, Lowell John, editor.
California Indian Shamanism.
1987, Ballena Press Anthropological Papers, No. 39, paper, 274 pp.
paper $28.50, cloth $34.00
- Jewell, Donald P. Indians of the Feather River: Tales and Legends of the Concow Maidu of California. 1987, Ballena Press, paper, 184 pp. $14
- Kroeber, Alfred Louis. Handbook of the Indians of California. 1976, Dover Publications, paper, 995 pp. $21
- Kroeber, A. L., and Lucile Hooper. Studies in Cahuilla Culture: Ethnography of the Cahuilla Indians, and The Cahuilla Indians. 1978, Malki Museum Press, paper, 106 pp. $25
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Mayfield, Thomas Jefferson.
Indian Summer: Traditional Life Among the Choinumne Indians of California's San Joaquin Valley.
1993, Heyday Books and California Historical Society, paper, 125 pp. $16
In 1850, six-year old Thomas Jefferson Mayfield was adopted by the Choinumne Yokuts of California's San Joaquin Valley. For the next dozen years he slept in their houses, joined them on their daily rounds, and followed them on their annual expeditions by tule boat to Tulare Lake.
He spoke their language, wore their style of dress, and in short, lived almost entirely like an Indian. The reminiscences he left behind are unique: the only known account by any outsider who lived among a California Indian people while they were still following their traditional ways.
Rich in detail and anecdote, Indian Summer tells how the Choinumne built their houses, navigated their boats, hunted their game, and prepared their foods.
It also provides a rare and welcome glimpse into the intimacies of daily life: the stirring of the older people who would stay up all night to keep the fires lit, how mothers taught their children to swim, how people washed their hands and faces, how people salted their fresh greens.
Enlightening as well are descriptions of the natural landscape of the San Joaquin Valley in the 1850s -- of the expansive flowery meadows, the lakes and sloughs, the great forests of valley oaks, the heards of antelope, the surge of salmon that fought their way up the rivers, the flight of geese and ducks that darkened the sky.
Abounding in information that anthropologist John P. Harrington described as "rescued from oblivion," Indian Summer portrays with accuracy, zest, and insight the nearly lost and unspeakably beautiful world of the Choinumne Yokuts and the valley in which they lived.
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McCawley, William
The First Angelinos: The Gabrielino Indians of Los Angeles County. 1996, Ballena Press, cloth and paper, 288 pp. cloth $49, paper $35
The first book in 35 years to cover the Gabrielino, the most complete and thorough work since Bernice Johnston's 1962 book on the Gabrielino.
- Woiche, Istet. Annikadel: The History of the Universe as Told by the Achumawi Indians of California. 1992, University of Arizona Press, paper, 166 pp. $13
Creation myths and stories of the First People from the Time When Animals were People. This body of myths from before the time of the Flood, was recorded & edited in the 1920s (and first published in 1928) by the ethnographer C. Hart Merriam from William Hulsey (Istet Woiche).
The used titles listed below are nearly all limited to a single copy on hand.
I recommend you contact me via e-mail (books@rock-art.com)
in order to reserve the copy of interest to you, or to verify that it is still available.
Used & Out-of-print Titles
- Bean, Lowell John. Mukat's People: The Cahuilla Indians of Southern California, 1972, University of California Press, cloth, d/j, 201 pp. Ex-library copy with pastedowns, tape marks, stickers, and library ownership markings. Save for a call number sticker on the spine, the d/j is in curiously Fine condition for a former public library book. (Appears never to have been checked out?!). Good/Fine. $20
- Bean, Lowell John. Mukat's People: The Cahuilla Indians of Southern California, 1972, University of California Press, cloth, d/j, 201 pp. Signed presentation copy. Owners name in ink along top edge and on upper right corner ffep. Price clipped d/j. Creases to rfep and previous page. Good/Very Good. $50
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Bente, Vance G. Test Excavations of LAn-1016aH: The Ontiveros Adobe, Santa Fe Springs, California.
1980, Greenwood and Associates, submitted to the Redevelopment Agency, City of Santa Fe Springs. Paper, comb bound, 145 pp..
Former owner's (and co-author) name (L. Sehgal) in red ink on upper left corner inside front wrap. Flecking/foxing along top and fore edges.
Very Good. $75
- Costello, Julia G. Archaeological Resources Survey: Phase 3. Los Angeles Downtown People Mover Project. 1981, prepared for the Downtown People Mover Authority, City of Los Angeles, paper, comb bound, 147 pp., Very Good. $12
- Heizer, R.F. California Indian Linguistic Records: The Mission Indian Vocabularies of H.W. Henshaw. 1955, Anthropological Records 15:2, University of California Press, stiff paper boards, 202 pp., Very Fine. $25
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Hyde, Villiana Calac, and Eric Elliott. Yumayk Yumayk: Long Ago. 1994, University of California Press, Berkeley, cloth, 1416 pp..
University of California Publications in Linguistics, Volume 125.
As New. $225
- James, Harry C. The Cahuilla Indians. 1960, reprinted 1995, Malki Museum Press, paper, 185 pp. New/Mint. $18
- Johnston, Bernice Eastman. Californias Gabrielino Indians. First Edition, 1962, Southwest Museum, cloth (blue), no d/j, no map, 198 pp., Very Good. $20
- Johnston, Bernice Eastman. Californias Gabrielino Indians. First Edition, 1962, Southwest Museum, stiff paper wraps, no map, presentation copy signed by author, soiled & stained front cover, coffee stain bottom 1st several pages, 198 pp., Fair. $20
The author had access to John Peabody Harrington's notes on the Gabrielino. Forward by JPH as well.
- another copy. 1964 reprint, Southwest Museum, cloth, no dj, includes map, 198 pp., Fine. $20
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The Journal of California Anthropology
Vol.4, No.1, pp. 1-152, Summer 1977 - Very Fine. $20
Ritual Management of Salmonid Fish Resources in California by Swezey & Heizer; Portola's 1769 Expedition and Coastal Native Villages of San Diego County by Carrico; J.P. Harrington's Cochimi Vocabularies by Mixco; Intimations of Unity by Laird; Prehistoric Squash (Cucurbita pepo L.) from the Salton Basin by Wilke, Whitaker & Hattori; Mohave Indian Images and the Artist Maynard Dixon by Elsasser; A Tentative Notation System for Kashaya Pomo Dances by McMurray; Biopsychological Aspects of Chumash Rock Art Blackburn; Temal Wakhish: A Desert Cahuilla Village Lando & Modesto; Painted Pebbles from a Shellmound on Brooks Island, Contra Costa County, California by V.M. Fredrickson; The Origin of the Name "Cahuilla" by Bright; CA Chumash Pottery Jar by rabtree & Warren.
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The Journal of California Anthropology
Vol.4, No.2, pp. 153-336, Winter 1977 - Very Fine. $20
A San Dieguito Component at Buena Vista Lake, California by Fredrickson & Grossman; Chemehuevi Myth as Social Commentary by Laird; "Playing Leaves": A Study of a Traditional Kashaya Pomo Play Behavior by Clavaud; Imagemakers of the Modoc War: Louis Heller and Edward Muybridge by Palmquist; The Many Wives of Pedro Yanunali by Warren; A Half Century of Death Valley Archaeology by Wallace; Patterns of Chumash Names by Hudson; The Calloway Affair of 1880: Chemehuevi Adaptation and Chemehuevi-Mohave Relations by Roth; Interior Chumash by Beeler & Klar; New Information on San Dieguito III Technology by Ezell; An Early Account of a Fired Clay Anthropomorphic Figurine from Marin County by F. Fenenga; The "Watcher's Stage" in Lower Colorado River Indian Agriculture by Lawton & Wilke.
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Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Vol.3, No.2, pp. 161-304, Winter 1981 - Good. Crease to lower right front cover, $15
Distribution of Rock Art Elements and Styles in Utah by Castleton & Madsen; Pyramid Lake Northern Paiute Fishing by Fowler & Bath; The Ethnographic Record by Fowler & Bath; Recently Discovered Accounts Concerning the "Lone Woman" of San Nicolas Island by Hudson; The Little Lake Site, Pinto Points, and Obsidian Dating in the Great Basin by Meighan; The Digger Indian Stereotype in California by Lonnberg; The "Aquatic Motif" in Chumash Rock Art by Hudson & Conti; Rock Enclosures in Southern California by Oxendine; Late Period Cultural Sequences in the Northeastern Great Basin Subarea and their Implications for the Upper Snake River and Salmon River Country vy Butler; Pitted Rock Petroglyphs in Southern California by True & Baumhoff; To Sea or not to Sea: Further Notes on the "Oceangoing" Dugouts of North Coastal California by Hudson; Radiocarbon Dates from the Bird Spring Site, Clark County, Nevada by Wells & Clewlow; An Incised Tablet from Northern California by Parkman; Notes on a Portable Rock Art Piece from Western Nevada by Clewlow & Wells.
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Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Vol.4, No.1, pp. 1-160, Summer 1982 - Fine. $20
Archaeology and Linguistics: Pomoan Prehistory as Viewed from Northern Sonoma County by Basgall; Two Historic Aboriginal Game-Drive Enclosures in the Eastern Great Basin by Raymond; Proposed Settlement Shifts during San Luis Rey Times: Northern San Diego County by True & Waugh; Dressing the Part: A Brief Look at the Development of Stereotypical Indian Clothing Among Native Peoples of the Far West by Bates; Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Concave Base Projectile Points from the North Coast Ranges, California by White, Jones, Roscoe & Weigel; Another Great Basin Atlatl with Dart Foreshafts and Other Artifacts by Tuohy; A Bronze Sword Grip from Chumash Territory by Lee; Costanoan Astronomy from the Notes of John P. Harrington by Hudson; A Compendium of Radiocarbon Dates for Southern Idaho Archaeological Sites by Plew & Pavesic; The Use of Hydration Measurements to Date Obsidian Materials from Sonoma County, California by Origer & Wickstrom; The Trail to Fernando by Johnson; Paleoecological Inferences from a Faunal Analysis of CA-SFR-7 by McCrossin; The 1776 Route of Father Francis Garces into the San Bernardino Valley by Weaver; Kawaiisu Mythology and Rock Art by Sutton.
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Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Vol.4, No.2, pp. 161-308, Winter 1982 - Good. Creasing to front and back covers, 1" tear and mailing label on back cover, $20
Vegetation Burning by the Chumash by Timbrook, Johnson & Earle; Regional Variation in Maidu Coiled Basketry Materials and Technique by Bates & Bernstein; Cultural Persistence in Nevada by Hanes; The Alliklik-Tataviam Problem by Hudson; Two Milling Stone Inventories from Northern San Diego County by True & Beemer; Notes on the Coso Petroglyphs, the Etiological Mythology of the Western Shoshone, and the Interpretation of Rock Art by Whitley; Victorian Costuming of the Southern Sierra Miwok: 1851-1875 by Wells; On the Road to Goleta by Benson & Edberg; Kumeyaay Socio-Political Structure by Shipek.
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Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Vol.5, Nos 1 and 2, pp. 1-288, 1983 - Very Good. Some crinkling to corners of interior pages, $25
The Roberts Collection of California Indian Photographs by Palmquist; Disease and Demographic Patterns at Santa Cruz Mission, Alta California by R.H. Jackson; Implications of Nutritional Potential of Anadromous Fish Resources of the Western Snake River Plain by Plew; Basin Religion and Theology: A Comparative Study of Power (Puha) by Miller; Identification of Avian and Mammalian Species Used in the Manufacture of Bone Whistles Recovered from a San Francisco Bay Area Archaeological Site by Morejohn & Galloway; Effects of Grinding Stone Reuse on the Archaeological Record of the Eastern Great Basin by Simms; Organization of Artifacts, Features, and Activities at Mitas Point: A Coastal Chumash Village by Gamble; Demographic Patterns in the Missions of Northern Baja California by R.H. Jackson; Soapstone for the Cosmos: Archaeological Discoveries in the Cuyamaca Mountains by Parkman; Surprise Valley Settlement and Subsistence by James; Chronicle of Murphys Rancheria (Mol-Pee-So): An Historic Central Sierra Miwok Village by Maniery; A Brief History of the San Juan Paiute Indians of Northern Arizona by Turner & Euler; Casual Artifacts in Northern San Diego County by True; California Collection of I.G. Voznesensky and the Problems of Ancient Cultural Connections Between Asia and America by Okladnikova; Intermarriage at Fort Ross: Evidence from the San Rafael Mission Baptismal Register by R.H. Jackson; A Maidu Acorn Dough Carrier by Bates; A Shaman's "Sucking Tube" from San Diego County by O'Neil; An Early Incised Stone from Danger Cave, Utah by James; Slicks in the San Luiseno Area by Shipek; Radiocarbon Determinations from the Frey Creek Drainage in Northern San Diego County by True & Waugh; A Note Concerning the Archaeology of Annadel State Park by Parkman; Yaa?vya's Poro: The Singular Power Object of a Chemehuevi Shaman by Musser-Lopez.
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Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Vol.6, No.1, pp. 1-145, 1984 - Very Fine. $20
Miwok Dancers of 1856: Stereographic Images from Sonora by Bates; Paleoenvironmental Change at Elkhorn Slough: Implications for Human Adaptive Strategies by Patch & Jones; Obsidian Hydration and the Pinto Chronology in the Mojave Desert by Jenkins & Warren; Prehistoric Human Land-use Patterns in the Alvord Basin, Southeastern Oregon by Pettigrew; Demographic Patterns in the Missions of Central Baja California by R.H. Jackson; New Observations on a Clovis Point from the Central Mojave Desert by Sutton & Wilke; A Basket Fragment from the Lava Mountains, San Bernardino County by Sutton & Ritter.
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Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Vol.6, No.2, pp. 145-288, 1984 - Good. Creasing to front and back covers, 1" tear and mailing label on back cover, $20
The Yuma Indians by Trippel; Rock Art of the Cuyamacas by Parkman; Late Period Hunting Adaptions on the North Coast of California by Hildebrandt; Early/Middle Period Subsistence Changes at SBA-1, Rincon Point, California by Peterson; Late Prehistoric Microblade Manufacture in San Diego County by O'Neil; Gentile Recruitment and Population Movements in the San Francisco Bay Area Missions by Jackson; The Productivity of Pinus monophylla and Modeling Great Basin Subsistence Strategies by Sutton; A Cache of Mesquite Beans from the Mecca Hills, Salton Basin by Swenson; Two Pointed Stone Artifacts from Shasta County, California by Sundahl; An Incised Soapstone Object from Johnson's Landing, Santa Catalina Island by Wlodarski; A Great Basin Pecked Style Petroglyph in the North Coast Ranges by Meacham.
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Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Vol.7, No.1, pp. 1-144, 1985 - Very Fine. $20
Drought During California's Mission Period, 1769-1834 by Rowntree; Archaeological Investigations at Lake Berryessa by True & Baumhoff; Navajo Settlement and Architecture in Southeastern California by Drover; The Significance of Small Sites to California Archaeology by Glassow; Kuuchamaa: The Kumeyaay Sacred Mountain by Shipek; Alternative Approaches to the Shasta Complex and Adjacent Expressions: Assemblages, Cultural Ecology, and Taxonomies by Farber; A Stone Alignment in the Northern Great Basin with a (Probably) Coincidental Astronomical Orientation by Raven; The Little Ice Age and Coastal Southern California Human Economy by Koerper, Killingley & Taylor; Early Holocene Settlement and Subsistence in Relation to Coastal Paleogeography: Evidence from CA-SBA-1807 by Erlandson; Fish Remains from an "Open" Archaeological Site in the Fort Rock Basin, South-Central Oregon by Toepel & Greenspan; Acquisition Cost and Nutritional Data on Great Basin Resources by Simms; Changing Shellfish Exploitation in San Luis Obispo County, California by Rudolph.
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Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Vol.7, No.2, pp. 145-288, 1985 - Very Fine. $20
Harvesting Pandora Moth Larvae with the Owens Valley Paiute by Fowler & Walter; Pine Nut Use in Three Great Basin Cases: Data, Theory, and a Fragmentary Material Record by Simms; The California Salmon Fry as a Food Source in Northeastern California by Sutton; Invaders from the South? Archaeological Discontinuities in the Northwestern Great Basin by Layton; Lichen Dating of Alpine Villages in the White Mountains, California Bettinger & Oglesby; The George T. Hunting Complex, Deep Springs Valley, California by Delacorte; Radiocarbon Dates for the Pauma Complex Component at the Pankey Site, Northern San Diego County, California by True & Pankey; Fremont Irrigation: Evidence from Gooseberry Valley, Central Utah by Metcalfe & Larrabee; Ovate Pestles and an Isolated Processing Station in Interior Southern California by True; A Fluted Point from the Mendocino County Coast, California by Simons, Layton & Knudson.
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Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Vol.8, No.1, pp. 1-144, 1986 - Fine. $20
The Pahoehoe Site: A Lanceolate Biface Cache in Central Oregon by Scott, Davis & Flenniken; Salt Pomo: An Ethnogeography by McCarthy; An Experimental Study of Projectile Point Fracture Patterns by Titmus & Woods; Chia and the Chumash: A Reconsideration of Sage Seeds in Southern California by Timbrook; Warfare and Expansion: An Ethnohistoric Perspective on the Numic Spread by Sutton; Newspaper Accounts of Indian Women in Southern Nevada Mining Towns, 1870-1900 by Knack; Archaeology of the Humboldt Lakebed Site by Livingston; Glass Trade Beads from Two Shasta Sites in Siskiyou County, California by Motz, Ritter & Rock; A Luiseno Sweat House in Northern San Diego County, California by True; A "Battle Scene" Petroglyph Panel in the Coso Range, California by Yohe, Sutton & McCarthy.
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Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Vol.8, No.2, pp. 145-288, 1986 - Top and bottom edge bumps, Good. $20
Foraging Behavior of a Contemporary Northern Great Basin Population by Couture, Ricks & Housley; Aboriginal Exploitation of Pandora Moth Larvae in East-Central California by Weaver & Basgall; Post-Formative Ceramics in the Eastern Great Basin: A Reappraisal of the Promontory Problem by Forsyth; New Evidence for Fremont Adaptive Diversity by Simms; Peyotism in California by Stewart; Ethnobotany of Devil's Claw (Proboscidea parviflora ssp. parviflora: Martyniacaea) in the Greater Southwest by Bretting & Nabhan; Learning About Baja California Indians by Aschmann; Cupule Petroglyphs in the Diablo Range, California by Parkman; A Maidu Coiled Basket from the North Fork of the Willamette River, Oregon by Tuohy; Macahui: The Unmaking of an Enigma by Bend’mez, Laylander & Leon; To-vah: A Luiseno Power Cave by True & Waugh; Patterns of Demographic Change in the Missions of Southern Baja California by Jackson.
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Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Vol.9, No.1, pp. 1-144, 1987 - Very Good. $20
Indian Sandpaintings of Southern California by Cohen; A Historic Indian Community at Victorville, California by Blomberg; McCue: An Elko Site in Riverside California by McDonald, Wilke & Kaus; Appendix: Source Analysis of Obsidian Samples by Bouey; Rock Art at the Kanaka-Briggs Creek Locality (10-GG-307), Gooding County, Idaho by Murphey; A Late Prehistoric Homestead on the Santa Barbara Coast by Moore; A Birdstone from San Diego County, California by Koerper & Labbe; A Possible Example of Dimorphic Sexual Symbolism in Luiseno Iconography by Koerper & Labbe; A Fluted Projectile Point Fragment from the Southern California Coast: Chronology and Context at CA-SBa-1951 by Erlandson, Cooley & Carrico.
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Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Vol.10, No.1, pp. 1-144, 1988 - Very Good. $20
Bow Staves Harvested from Juniper Trees by Indians of Nevada by Wilke; Ancient Lakeside Culture in the Northern Great Basin: Malheur Lake, Oregon by Aikens & Greenspan; Amending Models of Trans-Sierran Obsidian Tool Production and Exchange by Jackson; Harpoon Stone Tips and Sea Mammal Hunting on the Oregon and Northern California Coasts by Lyman, Clark & Ross; Fish Lake Valley in Great Basin Prehistory by Rafferty; A Shell Projectile Point from the Big Sur Coast, California by Jones; Cottonwood Triangular Points from Northern San Diego County, California by Waugh; Further Notes on Cupule Petroglyphs in the Diablo Range, California by Parkman; Perishable Artifacts from Cave No. 5, Providence Mountains, California by Sutton & Yohe.
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Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Vol.10, No.2, pp. 145-288, 1988 - As New. $20
Tizon Brown Ware and the Problems Raised by Paddle-and-Anvil Pottery in the Mojave Desert by Lyneis; Two Nineteenth-Century Reports of Great Basin Subsistence Practices by Rhode; Two Proposed Projectile Point Types for the Monterey Bay Area: Ano Nuevo Long-stemmed and Rossi Square-stemmed by Jones & Hylkema; Formation of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Council, 1934-1936 by Rusco; On the Nature and Antiquity of the Manix Lake Industry by Bamforth & Dorn; Geologic Setting and Prehistoric Settlement Patterning in the Central Sierra Nevada, California by Jackson; Reassessing the Chronology of the Glen Annie Canyon Site (CA-SBA-142) by Erlandson, Colten & Glassow; A Culture-Historical Model for the Klamath Mountain Region of Southwest Oregon and Northern California by Connolly; A Test of Three Shellfish Seasonality Methods by Cerreto; Salinan Linguistic Materials by Turner; Exwanyawish: A Luiseno Sacred Rock by True & Griset; A Quantitative Anatomical Study of Basket Fragments from Lovelock Cave, Nevada by Maynard & Rost.
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Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Vol.11, No.1, pp. 1-144, 1989 - As New. $20
The Structure of the Bustos Wickiup Site, Eastern Nevada by Simms; Differential Leadership Patterns in Early Twentieth-Century Great Basin Indian Societies by Clemmer; Prehistoric Use of Rock-lined Cache Pits: California Deserts and Southwest by Wilke & McDonald; Two Biface Clusters and Their Relation to Mortuary Practices in the San Francisco Bay Area by Pastron & Walsh; A Clovis-like Point from the Southern Sierra Nevada, California by Zimmerman, Pruett & Sutton; The Putnam-Kroeber Relations in the Development of American Anthropology by Dexter; A Crescent from the Southern San Joaquin Valley, California by Sutton; Exchange Items or Hunters' Tools? Another Look at Lanceolate Biface Caches in Central Oregon by Minor & Toepel; Reply to Minor and Toepel: A View from Outside Lava Island Rockshelter by Scott, Davis & Flenniken; Further Comments on Pinto Points and Their Dating by Meighan.
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Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Vol.11, No.2, pp. 145-288, 1989 - As New. $20
Lithic Raw Material Prospects in the Mojave Desert, California by Wilke & Schroth; The Desert Tortoise (Xerobates agassizii) in the Prehistory of the Southwestern Great Basin and Adjacent Areas by Schneider & Everson; Prehistoric Shellfish Exploitation Around the Goleta Lagoon, California by Colten; Interpreting Late Prehistoric Use of a Desert Marsh: The Tule Springs Hearth Site, Alvord Basin, Southeastern Oregon by Wilde; Remains of Tiny Fish from a Late Prehistoric Site Near Clear Lake, California by Gobalet; Ethnobotanical Inferences from Great Basin Oral Tradition by Sutton.
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Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Vol.12, No.1, pp. 1-144, 1990 - As New. $20
The Use of Tui Chub as Food by Indians of the Western Great Basin by Raymond & Sobel; The Caballo Blanco Biface Cache, Mendocino County, California (CA-MEN-1608) by Gary & McLear-Gary; The Protohistoric Period in the Western Great Basin Arkush; Achumawi and Atsugewi Fishing Gear by Barter; Traditions of Sucker Exploitation in the Pit River System: An Ajumawi Example by Evans; The Haverty Human Skeletons: Morphological, Depositional, and Geochronological Characteristics Brooks, Brooks, Kennedy, Austin, Firby, Payen, Slota, Prior & Taylor; An Obsidian Hydration Chronology of Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Surface Assemblages from Butte Valley, Nevada by Jones & Beck; Testing House Pits at the ZX Ranch Site, Lake County, Oregon: A Report on the 1939 Investigations by Oetting; An Archaeological Perspective on the Historic Settlement Pattern on Santa Cruz Island by Arnold.
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Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Vol.12, No.2, pp. 145-288, 1990 - As New. $20
Submerged Tree Stumps as Indicators of Mid-Holocene Aridity in the Lake Tahoe Region by Lindstrom; Lithic Resource Control and Economic Change in the Santa Barbara Channel Region by Arnold; Vigesimal Systems Found in California Indian Languages by Farris; Tataviam Geography and Ethnohistory by Johnson & Earle; Ceremony as Performance: The Western Mono Cry-Dance by Loether; The Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Archaeology of Butte Valley, Nevada: Three Seasons' Work by Beck & Jones; Notes on Creosote Lac Scale Insect Resin as a Mastic and Sealant in the Southwestern Great Basin by Sutton; The Population of the Santa Barbara Channel Missions (Alta California), 1813-1832 by Jackson.
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Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Vol.13, No.1, pp. 1-144, 1991 - Front cover creased, Good. $20
Seed-Eaters and Chert-Carriers: The Economic Basis for Continuity in Historic Western Shoshone Identities by Clemmer; Prehistoric Rock Art as an Indicator of Cultural Interaction and Tribal Boundaries in South-central California by Lee & Hyder; Archaeological Evidence for Stages of Manufacture of Olivella Shell Beads in California by Hartzell; The Lave Butte Site [35DS33] Revisited by Davis & Scott; A Woman at the Edge of Agriculture: Skeletal Remains from the Elsinore Burial Site, Sevier Valley, Utah by Wilde & Tasa; The Indian Reorganization Act in Nevada: Creation of the Yomba Reservation by Rusco; A Prehistoric Bighorn Sheep Drive Complex, Clan Alpine Mountains, Central Nevada by McGuire & Hatoff; A Radiocarbon Series for CA-SBA-1 (Rincon Point), Santa Barbara County, California by Erlandson.
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Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Vol.13, No.2, pp. 145-288, 1991 - As New. $20
Boulders to Bifaces: Initial Reduction of Obsidian at Newberry Crater, Oregon by Ozbun; Unifacial Bifaces: More Than One Way to Thin a Biface by Skinner & Ainsworth; Problems with the Use of Flake Size in Inferring Stages of Lithic Reduction by Scott; The Diamond Lil Site: Projectile Point Fragments as Indicators of Site Function by Flenniken; A Closer Look at Margin "Grinding" on Folsom and Clovis Points by Titmus & Woods; Reduction Assemblage Models in the Interpretation of Lithic Technology at the Tosawihi Quarries, North-Central Nevada by Bloomer; The Packwood Lake Site: Lithic Technology and Site Function by Markos; Flaked Stone from the Navajo Springs Great House, Arizona by Warburton; Clovis Technology at the Anzick Site, Montana by Wilke, Flenniken & Ozbun; The Antiquity of CA-SMI-1, A Multicomponent Site on San Miguel Island by Erlandson; "Invisible" Archaeological Deposits at Small Milling Sites by Parr & Sutton.
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Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Vol.14, No.1, pp. 1-144, 1992 - As New. $20
Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics in the Great Basin: Some Proposals for the 1990s by Fowler; New Directions? Great Basin Archaeology in the 1990s by Beck & Jones; Archaeological Research in the Context of Cultural Resource Management: Pushing Back the 1990s by Elston; Archaeology and the Public: Future Directions by Hatoff; "Women's Money": Types and Distributions of Pine Nut Beads in Northern California, Southern Oregon, and Northwestern Nevada by Farris; Inland Utilization of Marine Fishes by Native Americans along the Central California Coast by Gobalet; 4,000 Years of Human Occupation on Santa Barbara Island, California by Erlandson, Glassow, Rozaire & Morris; Acorn Exploitation in the Eastern Sierra Nevada by Haney; Lake and Marsh-Edge Settlements on Malheur Lake, Harney County, Oregon by Oetting.
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Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Vol.14, No.2, pp. 145-276, 1992 - As New. $20
Music and Culture Areas of Native California by Keeling; Elkhorn Slough Revisited: Reassessing the Chronology of CA-MNT-229 by Jones & Jones; The Mosida Site [42Ut808]: A Middle Archaic Burial from the Eastern Great Basin by Janetski, Lupo, McCullough & Novak; "I Solemnly Baptize": Religious Conversion and Native Demography in Northern Baja California by Moore & Norton; The Implications of Non-Periodic Growth in Bivalves for Three Seasonality Methods Used by Southern California Archaeologists by Cerreto; A Clovis-like Point from the Rose Spring Site (CA-INY-372) by Yohe; Jasper Procurement, Trade, and Control in Orange County: Comments and Observations by Koerper, Ericson, Fife, Shackley, Singer & Minch.
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Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Vol.15, No.1, pp. 1-144, 1993 - As New. $20
Index to Volumes 1-14. N-i-i-m-i-na Ahubiya: Western Mono Song Genres by Loether; Aboriginal Residential Structures in Southern Idaho by Green; Borax Lake Pattern Assemblages on the Shasta-Trinity National Forests, North-Central California by Sundahl & Henn; Creating Thunder: The Western Rain-Making Process by Parkman; The Numic Expansion in Great Basin Oral Tradition by Sutton; 9,500 Year-Old Human Burial from CA-SRI-116, Santa Rosa Island by Morris & Erlandson; On the Subsistence Ecology of the "Late Inland Millingstone Horizon" in Southern California by Sutton.
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Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Vol.15, No.2, pp. 145-264, 1993 - As New. $20
Walking Along Deer Trails: A Contribution to Salinan Ethnogeography Based on the Field Notes of John Peabody Harrington by Rivers & Jones; A San Clemente Island Perspective on Coastal Residential Structures and the Emergence of Sedentism by Salls, Raab & Bradford; Fake Effigies from the Southern California Coast? Robert Heizer and the Effigy Controversy by Lee; The Pectol Shields and the Shield-Bearing Warrior Rock Art Motif by Loendorf & Conner; The Archaeological Collection from Ludlow Cave, South-Central Mojave Desert, California by Osborne; Excavation and Analysis of a Stone Enclosure Complex in San Diego County by Van Wormer & Carrico.
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Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Vol.16, No.1, pp. 1-144, 1994 - Minor bumping, Very Good. $20
Community and Wilderness in Pomo Ideology by Parkman; The Possibilities of Women and Men: Gender and the California Milling Stone Horizon by McGuire & Hildebrandt; The Challenge of Archaeological Research in the Colorado Desert: Recent Approaches and Discoveries by Schaefer; Morphological and Temporal Projectile Point Types: Evidence from Orange County, California by Koerper, Schroth & Mason; A Descriptive Reanalysis of the Leporid Bones from Hogup Cave by Hockett; Intersource and Intrasource Geochemical Variability in Two Newly Discovered Archaeological Obsidian Sources in the Southern Great Basin by Shackley.
- Keeling, Richard. Cry for Luck: Sacred Song and Speech Among the Yurok, Hupa, and Karok Indians of Northwestern California. 1992, University of California Press, cloth w/ d/j, 325 pp. New/Mint. $25
- Kroeber, Alfred Louis. Handbook of the Indians of California. 1953, cloth, California Book Company, Berkeley, 995 pp. ink underlining on some pages. Good. $40
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Laird, Carobeth.
Encounter with an Angry God: Recollections of my Life with John Peabody Harrington.
1975, Malki Museum Press, Morongo Indian Reservation, cloth, 190 pp.,
Chipped dj with some loss at top, spine sun faded.
Very unusual copy with signatures of six of seven Malki Museum Press Editorial Board members including Harry W. Lawton, Katherine Siva Saubel, Lowell John Bean, Richard F. Logan, and Margaret Langdon. William Bright did not sign. Also included is the signature of Jon Bosak whose photograph of the author appears on the rear fly-leaf..
Good/Fair. $30
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Laird, Carobeth.
Encounter with an Angry God: Recollections of my Life with John Peabody Harrington.
1975, Malki Museum Press, Morongo Indian Reservation, cloth, 190 pp.,
Glue removal damage to mid-fore-edge of front and back boards and fep/rep. End papers evidently glued (just a dab) to end papers, then later sparated, resulting in paper loss to the end papers. Several chips and closed tears to d/j.
Fair-Good/Good. $30
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Laird, Carobeth.
The Chemehuevis.
1976, First Edition, Second Printing, Malki Museum Press, Morongo Indian Reservation, cloth, 349 pp., cream colored cloth over boards, black lettering on spine.
Minor soiling along top edge of pages. Rubbing to front and back of d/j. On back d/j cover, there is creasing along the top, a 1/2" chip is missing at the spine top, and a closed 1/4" tear at the bottom.
Fine/Good. $100
The definitive ethnographic work on the Chemehuevi Indians.
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Laird, Carobeth.
The Chemehuevis.
1976, First Edition, Second Printing, Malki Museum Press, Morongo Indian Reservation, cloth, 349 pp., cream colored cloth over boards, black lettering on spine.
Old price ($19.95) written in ink on inside front flap. Rubbing & light soiling to d/j, chipping at top spine of d/j.
Fine/Good. $100
The definitive ethnographic work on the Chemehuevi Indians.
- Latta, Frank F. Handbook of Yokuts Indians.
1977, Second Edition, Revised and enlarged, Bear State Books, Santa Cruz, cloth, no dj as issued, 765 pp..
Excellent. $100
The definitive ethnographic work on the Yokuts Indians of the San Joaquin Valley.
- Mc Cown, B. E.
SOLD
Temeku: A Page From the History of the Luiseno Indians.
1972 reprint of 1955 edition, Archaeological Survey Association of Southern California, paper, 58 pp. Fair. Paper spine torn and deteriorated. Staple bound, ex-library.
$20
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Munro, Pamela, Nellie Brown, and Judith G. Crawford.
A Mojave Dictionary, 1992, UCLA Occasional Papers in Linguistics, Number 10.
Paper, wire bound, 320 pages.
Small (about 1" long) stains to adjacent to front and rear end paper edges.
Curl to entire depth of book vertically alongside the metal wire binding.
Indentations from the wire binding to front cover.
Very Good. $75
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Rogers, David Banks.
Prehistoric Man of the Santa Barbara Channel.
1929, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, cloth, 452 pp., 78 b/w plates. Maroon colored cloth covered boards, gilt lettering front cover and spine. Wear and very mild bump to top of spine. Minor soiling to title page. One inch tears along gutter at top and bottom of title page. One-and-one-half inch tear at bottom of gutter on page ix of List of Illustrations. Fold out map present, but has been improperly folded in the past, such that it no longer folds neatly within the adjoining pages.
Good. $200
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SCA editorial committee.
Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology Volume 2. 1989, Society for California Archaeology, paper, 226 pp.,
Fine.
$20
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SCA editorial committee.
Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology Volume 3. 1990, Society for California Archaeology, paper, 386 pp.,
Good+.
$20
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SCA editorial committee.
Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology Volume 6. 1993, Society for California Archaeology, paper, cover creased lower right corner, 356 pp.,
Very Good.
$20
- SCA editorial committee.
Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology Volume 7. 1994, Society for California Archaeology, paper, 234 pp.,
Fine.
$20
- Vincent, Joseph, editor. The California Archaeologist: Bulletin of the California State Archaeological Society, No. 1. 1963, paper, 16 pages, stapled,
Very Good. $15
- Voegelin & Neasham. California Indians III. 1974, cloth, 362 pp., no dj as issued,
Fine. $65
Part of the Garland Series on American Indian Ethnohistory, California and Basin-Plateau Indians.
Contains two important mid-twentieth century studies on the Pit River Indians (Ajumawi) of northern California.
There works are Pitt River Indians of California by Ermine Wheeler-Voegelin, and Fall River Valley: A History by Ernest R. Neasham (originally published 1957).
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Walsh, Jane MacLaren. John Peabody Harrington: The Man and His California Indian Fieldnotes.
1976, Ballena Press Anthropological Papers No. 6, paper, 58 pp.
Thumbnail size crease to back cover and one to front cover along spine.
Very Fine.
$75
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Wilke, Phillip J., editor.
Background to Prehistory of the Yuha Desert Region, 1976, Ballena Press, paper, 109 pp.
Very Fine.
$20
California History
- Latta, Frank F. Dalton Gang Days. 1976, Bear State Books, cloth, no dj as issued, 293 pp., Excellent. $75
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