Treasures From Native California

Author : Travis Hudson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315416360
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treasures from Native California written by Travis Hudson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brief Russian presence in California yielded some of the earliest ethnography of Native Californians and some of the best collections of their material culture. Unstudied by western scholars because of their being housed in Russian museums, they are presented here for the first time in an English language volume. Descriptions of early nineteenth-century travelers such as von Wrangel and Voznesenskii are followed by a catalog of objects ranging from hunting weapons to household objects to ritual dress to musical instruments, games, and gift objects. This catalog of objects includes over 150 images, many in full color. An essential volume for those interested in the ethnology, archaeology, art, and cultures of Native Californians.

Author : M. Nevin Smith
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
ISBN 13 : 9780520244269
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native Treasures written by M. Nevin Smith and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the use of plants in varying landscapes and gardens. Includes state-of-the-art propagation techniques.

Author : Randall A. Reinstedt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780933818798
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales and Treasures of California's Missions written by Randall A. Reinstedt and published by . This book was released on 1992-09 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering seven California missions, offers tales of bandits, treasure, and priests.

Author : Herbert W. Luthin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520935365
Total Pages : 653 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Surviving Through the Days written by Herbert W. Luthin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-06-26 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of treasures from the oral literature of Native California, assembled by an editor admirably sensitive to language, culture, and history, will delight scholars and general readers alike. Herbert Luthin's generous selection of stories, anecdotes, myths, reminiscences, and songs is drawn from a wide sampling of California's many Native cultures, and although a few pieces are familiar classics, most are published here for the first time, in fresh literary translations. The translators, whether professional linguists or Native scholars and storytellers, are all acknowledged experts in their respective languages, and their introductions to each selection provide welcome cultural and biographical context. Augmenting and enhancing the book are Luthin's engaging, informative essays on topics that range from California's Native languages and oral-literary traditions to critical issues in performance, translation, and the history of California literary ethnography.

Author : Randall A. Reinstedt
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780785773634
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales and Treasures of California's Missions written by Randall A. Reinstedt and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1992-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering seven California missions, offers tales of bandits, treasure, and priests.

Author : W. C. Jameson
Publisher : august house
ISBN 13 : 9780874834062
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buried Treasures of California written by W. C. Jameson and published by august house. This book was released on 1995 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects legends of buried treasure in California, including the lost San Miguel treasure, the canyon of lost gold, and the lost Dutch Oven mine.

Author : Jesse Ed Rascoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southern California Treasures written by Jesse Ed Rascoe and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Victor Golla
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520389670
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California Indian Languages written by Victor Golla and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village-dwelling peoples spoke seventy-eight mutually unintelligible languages. This comprehensive illustrated handbook, a major synthesis of more than 150 years of documentation and study, reviews what we now know about California's indigenous languages. Victor Golla outlines the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages—from the earliest vocabularies collected by explorers and missionaries, to the data amassed during the twentieth-century by Alfred Kroeber and his colleagues, to the extraordinary work of John P. Harrington and C. Hart Merriam. Golla also devotes chapters to the role of language in reconstructing prehistory, and to the intertwining of language and culture in pre-contact California societies, making this work, the first of its kind, an essential reference on California’s remarkable Indian languages.

Author : Beecher Crampton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520025073
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grasses in California written by Beecher Crampton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grasses have been extremely important in California, with its rolling grass-covered hills and the green-to-gold seasonal cycle of many native grasses. This convenient pocket guide surveys the range and provides identification keys for the common introduced and native grasses.

Author : Robert Fleming Heizer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520020313
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The California Indians written by Robert Fleming Heizer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of California Indian native cultures, discussing their origins, traditions, beliefs, daily life, struggles, and culture.