HANDBOOK OF THE INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA HAND BOOK...with 419 Illustrations and 40 Maps (Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin No. 78)

Berkeley: Dover pub. Very Good. 1976 THUS. 1st Edition THUS. Paperback. 6x9" THICK. VERY GOOD Condition ,CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT ; WHITE SPINE & cover titles on RED PAPER COVERS.. ..No later printing stated.. NICE MAPS INNER COVERS..; Color MAP INNER BACK COVER; 995pg Heavy pages; INDEXED. ANTHROPOLOGIST WHO BEFRIENDED ISHI..California Indian. CLEAN, SOLID COPY. SHARP. Based on more than 15 years of exhaustive research by Kroeber, it is a summation of just about everything of importance known about these Indians. Kroeber covered demographic situations, linguistic relations (which are also extraordinarily complex), social structures, folkways, 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 Yurok, Pomo, Maidu, Yokuts, and Mohave naturally receiving the most detail. .