- 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
 | Bibby, Brian. The Fine Art of California Indian Basketry. 1996, Crocker Art Museum & Heyday Books, paper, 114 pp. $20 A companion to a California Indian basketry exhibition at the Crocker Museum in Sacramento, California, this work contains 66 color photographs of baskets, and 31 historical and contemporary b/w photos of the weavers. |
A comprehensive summary of all known forms of primitive water transportation used in the Indian Californias -- Alta (Upper) and Baja (Lower) -- up to the mid-19th century. The author describes the materials, tools, design, construction, and uses of Indian water-borne vehicles. Suggested reading, cited authorities, glossary and index are included.
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.
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.
Classic study of California Indians through the use of mission registers, and other ethnohistoric documents from the Spanish Period.
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).
Maurice Zigmond synthesizes his own fieldwork of the 1930s with that of others (Stephen Cappannari & Ted McCown) who consulted with Kawaiisu people in the early part of this century, and presents the remarkable number of seventy two myths for this California tribe.
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