Ancient Life Among the Southern California Indians (Pamphlet)

Description

Author: Harrington, M. R.  (Mark Raymond)  (1882-1971)

Publisher: Southwest Museum

Pub Date: 1955 (if this is an original printing these copies sat in somebody’s vault for 70 years)

Binding: Paperback

Condition: 2 copies (JDFP): Both copies Good.  Stapled binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends, folds.  Very light edge and corner wear.

Notes: Pamphlet.  Southwest Museum Number 26.  Reprint edition.  Originally published in The Masterkey (Southwest Museum magazine).  “The Luiseños are the southernmost tribe in California speaking a dialect related to that of the modern Shoshones, and are named from San Luis Rey Mission, back of Oceanside, in the vicinity of which they lived…” (From the Introduction).  Harrington was the Curator of the Southwest Museum from 1928-1964, and spent the bulk of his career working in the archaeology of the California and Great Basin tribes.