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Census of Non-Reservation California Indians, 1905-1906

Wed, 6 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Census of Non-Reservation California Indians, 1905-1906

Collected Documents on the Causes And Events in the Bloody Island Massacre Of 1850

Wed, 6 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Collected Documents on the Causes And Events in the Bloody Island Massacre Of 1850

The Archaeology of Barrel Springs Site (Nv-Pe-104), Pershing County, Nevada

Wed, 6 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The Archaeology of Barrel Springs Site (Nv-Pe-104), Pershing County, Nevada

Ethnographic Observations on the Coast Miwok and Pomo by Contre-Admiral F. P. Von Wrangell and P. Kostromitonov of the Russian Colony Ross, 1839

Wed, 6 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Ethnographic Observations on the Coast Miwok and Pomo by Contre-Admiral F. P. Von Wrangell and P. Kostromitonov of the Russian Colony Ross, 1839

Na Mea Kahiko o Kahikinui - Studies in the Archaeology of Kahikinui, Maui

Wed, 6 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This volume presents preliminary findings from archaeological fieldwork undertaken by three different institutionsin Kahikinui District on Maui. The contributors agreed last year that one aim of our work should be to prepare nontechnicalreports for public distribution in Hawai'i. In discussing the idea of such a volume, Patrick Kirch and I agreed that while thepublic in Hawai'i often is aware of archaeological fieldwork being conducted, all too rarely do they get a timely summary ofinitial findings. Often, results only become available some years later in highly technical reports. Easy-to-read summariesare rarely available. It seemed to us that providing such a summary of the Kahikinui research would be of considerableinterest to the public. After all, it is the public-the taxpayer-who ultimately has paid for much (though not all) of thisarchaeology, be it through national granting agencies, the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, state university programs,or the State of Hawai'i...

Ethnogeographic and Ethnosynonymic data from Northern California (vol 1)

Wed, 6 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Clinton Hart Merriam, who signed his name C. Hart Merriam was a naturalist who spent part of his professional life studying California Indians. He worked assiduously with native informants. For Merriam's background, which was that of a biologist and not ananthropologist, the reader is referred to a following section written by Alfred L. Kroeber, "C. Hart Merriam as Anthropologist." Although Merriam had a formal tie with the Smithsonian Institution which held a bequest known as the E.H. Harriman Fund, he was not a member of the Smithsonian staff. He had, in brief, an institutional connection, but he did not work under the direction of that institution.

From the 'Cliffs of Keolewa' to the sea of Papaloa: An Archaeological Reconnaissance of Portions of the Kalaupapa National Historical Park, Moloka'i, Hawaiian Islands

Wed, 6 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Three specific objectives were outlined in our Scope of Work: (1) A reconnaissance survey of several selected environmental zones within the Park (e.g., the wet valleys, the colluvial and talus slopes inland of the peninsula, and the peninsula itself), in order to gain an overview of the kinds and distributions of major archaeological features. (2) Detailed plane table mapping and architectural recording of selected sites, including several known, but currently un-documented heiau and associated features. (3) Cleaning and re-recording of the test excavations conducted by Richard Pearson in 1966-67 in the Kaupikiawa lava tube complex in Kalawao (Site 312), which had produced an early 14C age determination.

Review and Discussion of Great Basin Projectile Points

Wed, 6 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Review and Discussion of Great Basin Projectile Points

Reprints of Various Papers on California Archaeology, Ethnology and Indian History

Wed, 6 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Reprints of Various Papers on California Archaeology, Ethnology and Indian History

Ethnogeographic and Ethnosynonymic data from Central California (vol 2)

Wed, 6 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Merriam's lists are published here exactly as he recorded them. No changes have been made in conformity with the agreement made with his heirs when the Merriam Collection was accepted by the Department of Anthropology at Berkeley. Merriam's phonetic system can be found at the end of this section.

Costanoan Internal Relationships

Wed, 6 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Costanoan Internal Relationships

Seven early accounts of the Pomo Indians and their Culture

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The unity, such as it is, of the present collection of earlier articles is that they all deal with the people of one California tribe, the Pomo, whose center lay around Clear Lake in the northern Coast Ranges. The extent of the lands occupied by the several divisions of the Pomo tribe, their village locations, and boundaries of the numerous village communities or tribelets are shown on the accompanying map which is reproduced from O. Stewart's Notes on Pomo Ethnogeography (1940). Stewart's quite thorough work, carried out in the late nineteen-thirties, is to be taken as more accurate than the listing and mapping of Pomo tribelets given in Kroeber's Handbook of the Indians of California (1925, pl. 36). Kroeber's map was apparently mainly based on one earlier published by S.A. Barrett in 1908 and which is important in showing a very large number of village site locations.

The Pomo may have numbered in the late 1700s before the Spanish settlement of the coastal section of...

Chumash Place Name Lists

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

At Berkeley in the Anthropology files are lists of Chumash place names assembled by C. Hart Merriam and A.L. Kroeber. While there is little, if anything, new in these -- i.e., original information elicited from native Chumash in the present century -- it is possible that these lists may be of some utility to persons concerned with Chumash place names, particularly if they are at all concerned with these names which have earlier appeared in print.

The Merriam list is an abstract of his California place-tribal name card file which numbers some 18,000 entries. The Kroeber list is on cards bearing the title "Chumashan Villages. Arranged geographically from Handbook of American Indians, 1911." Kroeber located on then available USGS quadrangles the position of as many of these sites as he could, marking sites with approximate locations with an X and those of definitely determined locations with a dot. These quadrangle maps, now in the files, are too large to publish but...

Notes on the Northern Paiute Ethnography:Kroeber And Marsden Records

Thu, 12 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Notes on the Northern Paiute Ethnography:Kroeber And Marsden Records

The Archaeology of Bamert Cave, Amador County, California

Wed, 3 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The Archaeology of Bamert Cave, Amador County, California

An Anthropological Expedition of 1913, or Get it Through Your Head, or Yours for the Revolution: Correspondence between A. L. Kroeber and L. L. Loud, July 12, 1913 - October 31, 1913

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

An Anthropological Expedition of 1913, or Get it Through Your Head, or Yours for the Revolution: Correspondence between A. L. Kroeber and L. L. Loud, July 12, 1913 - October 31, 1913