I/O SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



Special attention was given by the writer to the study of the manu- 

 factures of these people, so few of which are known except from 

 excavated remains. Roughly speaking, stone, bone, and shell have 

 survived in the ground, and all else has perished, except by the rarest 

 coincidence. The nicety of the objects manufactured by these people 

 called forth admiration in the diaries of early explorers. Considerable 

 variation existed in the materials and methods of use of utensils and 

 regalia. 



The placenames contained in the Diario of Fr. Jose Maria Zalvidea, 

 1806, were deciphered from the original manuscript in the Santa 

 Barbara Mission archives with the collaboration of my friend, Fr. 

 Zephyrin Engelhardt, the historian of the Missions, the corrected list 

 standing as follows : Jonatas, Saca, Olomosoug, Gecp, Jalihuilimit, 

 Lisahua, Cuia, Siguicon, Sgene, Malapoa, Napolea, Sisupistu, Tupai, 

 Tacui, Yaguelame, Majagua, Taslupi, Castegue, Atongai, Guapiabit, 

 Guapia, Moscopiabit, Guapiana. The correct reading of several of 

 these names is important, for they have hitherto been quoted in incor- 

 rect form. 



At the special request of the Chief of the Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology, a study was made of the finds recently made at the E. W. 

 Alexander Ranch near Santa Barbara. A large number of objects 

 were unearthed by chance in the orchard of Mr. Alexander at the site 

 of the former Los Prietos rancheria. It was a burial cache only a few 

 feet in diameter, very likely made when the rancheria was abandoned. 

 Through the courtesy of Mr. Alexander, black and green steatite 

 dishes of saucerlike size and thinness were examined ; also a round- 

 ended and a straight-ended arrow-straightener, both beautifully made 

 of black steatite. A pipe of black steatite contained Calandrinia seeds 

 which had evidently been thrown into the grave as a votive offering, 

 as was the custom. A symmetrical l)lack flint spearhead measures five 

 inches in length. There is a perfectly preserved abalone gorget, and 

 a quartz crystal such as was used as a pendant on the breast or to 

 surmount a ceremonial stafif of wood or bone. The display of pecked 

 sandstone mortars is only rivalled by the great steatite boiling pots, 

 which were used for boiling acorn mush and other foods. Food never 

 burned in the latter, and one of them would be handed down in a 

 family for generations. Six of these great pots were inspected, all 

 as new looking as if taken fresh from the fire, sooted on the bottom 

 and glistening gray in appearance. 



One of the interesting sites in this region is known as the picdra 

 uicdidora. If a person who cannot squeeze through this cleft in a 

 rock suddenly finds that he can pass through, it is a bad omen and 

 portends a sudden death. 



