Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. preface to the second edition V
3. CONTENTS VII
4. GENERAL SURVEYS
5. ELEMENTS OF CULTURE IN NATIVE CALIFORNIA 3
6. THE ABORIGINAL POPULATION OF UPPER CALIFORNIA 66
7. A NEW ECOLOGICAL TYPOLOGY OF THE CALIFORNIA INDIANS 73
8. SOME REGIONAL ASPECTS OF NATIVE CALIFORNIA 84
9. CALIFORNIAN INDIAN PHYSICAL TYPES 97
10. LINGUISTIC FAMILIES OF CALIFORNIA 105
11. THE HISTORY OF NATIVE CULTURE IN CALIFORNIA 112
12. ARCHAEOLOGY
13. THE WESTERN COAST OF NORTH AMERICA 131
14. SAN FRANCISCO BAY SHELLMOUNDS 144
15. CULTURE SEQUENCES IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ARCHAEOLOGY 158
16. A SUGGESTED CHRONOLOGY FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COASTAL ARCHAEOLOGY 186
17. ANTIQUITY OF SAN FRANCISCO BAY SHELLMOUNDS 202
18. PREHISTORY OF THE SANTA BARBARA AREA 206
19. SPECULATIONS ON THE PREHISTORY OF NORTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA 225
20. ROCK ART IN CALIFORNIA 231
21. HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS OF NATIVE CALIFORNIANS
22. THE COLORADO YUMANS IN 1775 247
23. THE CHUMASH INDIANS OF SANTA BARBARA 255
24. THE YUROK OF TRINIDAD BAY, 1851 262
25. THE LONE WOMAN OF SAN NICOLAS ISLAND 272
26. ISHI, THE LAST YAHI 285
27. ETHNOLOGY: MATERIAL CULTURE AND ECONOMY
28. THE FOOD PROBLEM IN CALIFORNIA 297
29. CALIFORNIAN BALANOPHAGY 301
30. DESERT PLANT FOODS OF THE COAHUILLA 306
31. THE VALUE OF INSECTS TO THE CALIFORNIA INDIANS 315
32. CALIFORNIA BASKETRY AND THE POMO 319
33. MIWOK HOUSES 332
34. FIRE-MAKING OF THE WINTU INDIANS 341
35. MINES AND QUARRIES OF THE INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA 346
36. STONE-FLAKING OF THE KLAMATH RIVER YUROK 360
37. THE TRIBE IN CALIFORNIA 367
38. MIWOK LINEAGES AND THE POLITICAL UNIT IN ABORIGINAL CALIFORNIA 375
39. YUROK NATIONAL CHARACTER 385
40. YUROK LAW AND CUSTOM 391
41. MODOC CHILDHOOD 424
42. MOHAVE WARFARE 431
43. WAR STORIES FROM TWO ENEMY TRIBES 445
44. ABORIGINAL CALIFORNIA AND GREAT BASIN CARTOGRAPHY 459
45. THE WORLD RENEWAL CULT OF NORTHWEST CALIFORNIA 464
46. YUROK GEOGRAPHICAL CONCEPTS 472
47. VILLAGE SHIFTS AND TRIBAL SPREADS IN CALIFORNIA PREHISTORY 480
48. PRINCIPAL LOCAL TYPES OF THE KUKSU CULT 485
49. THE 1870 GHOST DANCE 496
50. DEATH AND BURIAL AMONG THE NORTHERN MAIDU 500
51. THE YOKUTS DANCE FOR THE DEAD 513
52. THE MOURNING CEREMONY OF THE MIWOK, 1906 520
53. YUROK SHAMANISM 533
54. HUPA SORCERY 544
55. MIGRATION AND URBANIZATION OF THE INDIANS IN CALIFORNIA 551
56. CONFLICT BETWEEN THE CALIFORNIA INDIAN AND WHITE CIVILIZATION 562
57. REFERENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY 583
58. INDEX 611