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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS
ANTHROPOLOGICAL RECORDS
VOLUME XVI
1955-1961
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
BERKELEY AND LOS ANGELES
1961
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CONTENTS
1. Mohave Pottery, by A. L. Kroeber and Michael J. Harner 1
2. The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley,
California, by S. F. Cook 31
3. The Aboriginal Population of the North Coast of California,
by S. F. Cook 81
4. The Aboriginal Population of Alameda and Contra Costa
Counties, California, by S. F. Cook 131
5. California Athabascan Groups, by Martin A. Baumhoff 157
6. Colonial Expeditions to the Interior of California, Central
Valley, 1800-1820, by S. F. Cook 239
7. Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society, by Robert F.
Murphy and Yolanda Murphy 293
8. A Burial Cave in Baja California, The Palmer Collection,
1887, by William C. Massey and Carolyn M. Osborne 339
9. Washo Religion, by James F. Downs 365
MOHAVE POTTERY
BY A. L. KROEBER AND MICHAEL J. HARNER
ANTHROPOLOGICAL RECORDS Vol. 16, No. 1 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
ANTHROPOLOGICAL RECORDS
Editors (Berkeley): R. L. Olson, R. F. Heizer, T. D. McCown, J. H. Rowe
Volume 16, No. 1, pp. 1-30, plates 1-8, 2 figures in text
Submitted by editors August 4, 1954 Issued May 6, 1955 Price, 75 cents
University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles California
Cambridge University Press London, England
Manufactured in the United States of America
FOREWORD
The pottery here described was collected fifty years ago by Kroeber and
is all in the University's Museum of Anthropology.
It is described for ethnological comparability by Kroeber, with emphasis
on use, shape, painted design, and names of designs; and for
archaeological utilization by Harner, with special attention to ware,
temper, firing, hardness, forms, paint and color, and technological
considerations generally. The two parts were written independently. They
overlap here and there, especially on vessel shapes; but, after a few
duplications were excised, it has seemed advantageous, after adding a
brief concordance of terms employed by the two authors, to let the
independent treatments of shapes stand double.
No comparisons with other native ceramic arts, recent or ancient, are
undertaken by us.
A. L. K.
M. J. H.
CONTENTS
PART I. ETHNOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS
By A. L. Kroeber
Page
Pottery shapes recognized by the Mohave 1
Pottery objects other than vessels 2
Technological notes 2
Description of the pottery 3
Plate 1: Bowls 3
Plate 2: Bowls 3
Plate 3: Platters 4
Plate 4: Spoons 5
Plate 5: Jars, pots, jugs, cups 6
Plate 6: Bowls, platters, parchers, canteens 7
Plate 7: Spoon backs, toys, pipes, pot rests 7
Plate 8: Jar, cup, platter, bowls, spoons 8
Summary of shapes 8
Summary of painted designs and elements 9
The Mohave pottery style 10
Appendix I. Memoranda on the destroyed Academy collection 12
Appendix II. A small Mohave bowl 12
Appendix III. Granite temper and limonite pigment examination,
by Professor Charles Meyer 13
Appendix IV. Mohave pottery in other museums 13
Appendix V. Correlation of Kroeber and Harner shape classes 13