Category: History - American
The present manuscript attempts a reassessment of the aboriginal population of Northwestern California, from the Oregon line to the Bay of San Francisco. There are no natural and fixed limits to the territory. Its outline serves merely the purposes of convenience. For this rea...
The closest approach to a house count is reported by Kroeber (1925, p. 138) who states that six of the identified settlements showed 17, 7, 4, 2, 4, and 8 house pits respectivel...
7. Part 7When one attempts to establish what were the Pomo community groups and chief villages, he encounters a great deal of divergence of opinion on detail among these investigators, d...
6. Part 6Although the Yuki were a populous and important tribe, and although Kroeber, in the Handbook, devoted three chapters to their culture, they have been the subject of but one spec...
9. Part 9There is a little contributory evidence to be obtained from the mission records. These documents, which are to be found in the Bancroft Library of the University of California,...
8. Part 8In the Mitom region Merriam is very explicit. He mentions Me-to-mah-chut-te, which corresponds to Stewart's Mitom, and says that it was the "name applied by Me-tum-mah to all th...
4. Part 43 3 Mp 4 and 5 12.5 6 3 Mp 7 11 8 3 Mp H, I, J, 9 20 D-G } K-X } 60 Mp AA-AK} A 8 B 4 C 5.5 Y 4 Z 12 17 4.5 19 3 Mp 22 4 Mp 31 2 Mp 33 8 Mp 34 4 Mp 39 2 Mp 45 2 AL 4 Mp 48 2 Mp...
10. Part 10The Northern Wappo and the Lake Miwok form the next natural division. It is preferable to treat these two groups together, and more or less in defiance of strict tribal limits,...
1. Part 1The present manuscript attempts a reassessment of the aboriginal population of Northwestern California, from the Oregon line to the Bay of San Francisco. There are no natural an...
3. Part 375. oketo P Pp. 265-266. These villages were located on Big Lagoon. The latter "... was a center of population. At least six inhabited sites were to be found about its shores......
2. Part 211. otweg D P. 227. These three villages were "referred to" but their location not pointed out by Waterman's informants. He suggests they may have been suburbs of _rekwoi_. Kroe...
11. Part 11Regarding the accuracy of the figures, specifically the three items for which literal numbers are given, it can be said again, as was pointed out with reference to J. B. R. Coop...