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A summary of Yuki cultureBook 1944 • Foster, George McClelland
Yuki • North America > Northwest Coast and California
This study is a detailed ethnographic description of aboriginal Yaki culture based on the memories of native informants who were living at the time of the author's field work in 1937. Major topics discussed in this work are: the economy; material cul...The Coyotepec molde and some associated problems of the potter's wheelarticle 1959 • Foster, George McClelland
Zapotec • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
This document, based on three brief visits to Coyotepec in 1940, 1946 and 1958, contains descriptive materials on pottery making utilizing the molde, a rotating support on which the clay is worked. The descriptive data, based on observations of 4 pot...War stories from two enemy tribesarticle 1939 • Goldschmidt, Walter R. et al.
Yuki • North America > Northwest Coast and California
The information in this article was obtained by the authors from native informants during the summers of 1935-1937. Basically the document consists of a series of nine stories of warfare between the Yuki and Nomlaki people, four of which were told by...