Handbook of the Indians of California
"This book is a history in that it tries to reconstruct and present the scheme within which these people in ancient and more recent times lived their present lives ... I have constituted the bulk of the book a series of tribal descriptions."--Preface
Print Book, English, 1976
Dover Publications, New York, 1976
Textbooks (form)
xviii, 995 pages, 45 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780486233680, 0486233685
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The Yurok: land and civilization
The Yurok: law and custom
The Yurok: religion
The Yurok: arts
The Karok
The Chimariko and Wiyot
Athabascans: the Tolowa
Athabascans: the Hupa, Chilula, and Whilkut
Athabascans: southern groups
The Yuki: ethnic geography
The Yuki: culture
The Yuki: religion
The Huchnom and Coast Yuki
The Wappo
The Pomo: geography and politics
The Pomo: civilization
The Pomo: religion
The Coast and Lake Miwok
The Shastan group
The Shasta
The Achomawi and Atsugewi
The modoc
The Yana and Yahi
The Penutian family
The Wintum: geograpjhy and culture
The Wintum: Kuksu cult
The Maidu: land and society
The Maidu: arts and implements
The Maidu: religion and knowledge
The Miwok
The Costanoans
The Yokuts: geography
The Yokuts: social institutions
The Yokuts: cults
The Yokuts: the concrete basis of life
The Esselen and Salinans
The Chumash
The Washo
The Shoshonean stock
The Paiute, Mono, and Koso
The Chemehuevi
The Kawaiisu and Tübatulabal
Serrano divisions
The Gabrielino
The Juaneño
The Luiseño: the elements of civilization
The Luiseño: organization of civilization
The Cupeño and Cahuilla
The Diegueño and Kamia
The Mohave: concrete life
The Mohave: dream life
The Yuma
Other Yuman tribes
Arts of life
Society
Religion and knowledge
Population
Place names
Culture provinces
Prehistory
Appendix: pronunciation of native words
Reprint of the 1925 ed. published by Govt. Print. Off., Washington, which was issued as no. 78 of the bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution
Includes indexes