Douglas Andrews

Documents the claims that the Pomo occupied Central California west of the Sierras and utilized all parts of the land without agriculture or other destructive exploitation. Borrowing the bow from the Northwest, and twined basketry from the Southwest pueblos. California Culture flowered with the Pomo, making perhaps the finest feathered weaving and woven basketry, both twined and coiled, in America.
With an excellent map. More than just a reprint of Kroeber's. Weak on cultural specifics (how to make a basket), but thorough in documenting the fact that tribal place names, for rocks and trees as well as larger features, reflect serious "attachments", absorbed usages, and pangs from loss.… (más)