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Handbook of the Indians of California, 1976.Entry/Object ID
2020.17.2Scope and Content
Handbook of the Indians of California. Written by Kroeber, A. L. Front cover shows one basket with lid, the basket has a geometric design.
"The Indians of California, in their ethnographic present, offered the widest cultural range to be found in any area of the United States. In the north they approximated the cultures of the Northwest Coast, in the center they developed distinctive, elaborate cultures based on local food supplies; and on the south and east they approximated the more primitive desert groups -- all in all showing a host of adaptations within a relatively small geographical area. In addition, despite successive decimations by missionaries, colonial administrations, settlers and exploiters, enough Indians survived... to make their study possible. For these reasons they have long been an important topic in anrthropoligical circles."
"...Based on more than 15 years of exhustive research by Krober, it is a summation of just about everything. Kroeber covered demographic situations, liguistic relations..., social structures, folk-ways, religion, material culture and whatever else was needed to offer a full picture of each "tribe". The resulting book is a survey of each group, the typologically more important groups like the Uurok, Pomo, Maidu, Yokuts and Mohave naturally receiving the most detail."Collection
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Written by Kroeber, A. L.