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Southern Coast Salishessay 1990 • Suttles, Wayne P. & Lane, Barbara Savadkin
Southern Coast Salish • North America > Northwest Coast and California
This overview of Southern Coast Salish peoples covers such topics as territory, environment, external relations, culture, technology, clothing, kinship, and warfare. It also discusses the effects of the reservation system on tribal relations....Unpublished field notesessay 1957 • Lane, Robert B. & Lane, Barbara Savadkin
Sa • Oceania > Melanesia
This document contains the authors’ unpublished field notes, largely about the Sa kinship system, including a lengthy discussion on marriage. Other topics covered are subsistence and, more briefly, clothing, houses and the exchange of gifts....