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COLOC COLORADAS 



[b. a. e. 



data concerning a tribe may be sketched, 

 giving material of value for comparative 

 study as well as indicating subjects to be 

 taken up by specialists. Ethnographic 

 objects form the bulk of collections. In- 

 numerable collectors gather material of 

 this kind for various purposes, wittingly 

 or unwittingly becoming contributors to 

 the advance of anthropology. As a rule, 

 however, striking objects only are ac- 

 quired in desultory collecting. Common 

 tools, appliances, and products do not 

 attract the attention they merit. 



The most obvious materials for collec- 

 tions among aboriginal tribes may be 

 classed under the following headings: 

 Aliment, habitations and appurtenances, 

 vessels and utensils, clothing, adornment, 

 implements, transportation, measuring 

 and valuing, writing, games and pastimes, 

 music, art, language, domestic life, social 

 life, government, and religion. Physical 

 man and his surroundings are prime ob- 

 jects of study. Collections will comprise 

 specimens of implements, clothing, etc., 

 actually or formerly in use, models care- 

 fully made, photographs and drawings, 

 and' descriptions of objects, customs, in- 

 stitutions of society, laws, beliefs, and 

 forms of worship. A thorough investiga- 

 tion of a single tribe requires time and 

 patience, but the result of painstaking 

 work in one tribe renders easier the ex- 

 amination of other tribes. Wherever 

 possible, photographs of Indians, front 

 and profile views, should be taken. Casts 

 of faces are desirable, and with a little 

 instruction a collector can easily make 

 them. 



The field collector's outfit varies so 

 much with circumstances and the work 

 to be carried on that it is not possible to 

 enumerate all the articles needed, yet a 

 few desiderata of general utility may be 

 indicated: String and stick tags, twine, 

 glue, tissue paper, coarse muslin, cotton 

 batting, small boxes, pencils, notebooks, 

 quadrille paper, envelopes, and tape meas- 

 ure are essential. A 5 by 7 camera with 

 glass plates is the most useful kind, 

 though smaller film cameras are more 

 convenient. The panorama camera is 

 very useful for extended views or scenery. 

 It is advantageous to take a film-develop- 

 ing machine, since by its means one may 

 be sure of results. 



For excavation, long-handled shovels, 

 picks for rough work in hard soil, trow- 

 els, a long-bladed knife, and a whisk 

 broom are sutficient. These tools, except 

 trowels and brush, can nearly always be 

 procured in the locality where the work 

 is to be carried on. For work in dry, 

 dusty caves, cheesecloth or sponge aspira- 

 tors may be improvised, and acetylene 

 lanterns or pocket electric lights used to 

 furnish smokeless light, though the dif- 



fused light of candles sometimes gives 

 more satisfactory results. 



For work in somatology numerous ac- 

 curate instruments are needed, which, 

 with the methods, render essential a course 

 of instruction in an anthropological lab- 

 oratory. The instruments required are 

 sliding calipers, open calipers, a wooden 

 compass, a wooden standard graduated 

 meter, a measuring rod, and a tape meas- 

 ure. A notebook ruled for recording 

 data should be provided. 



For casting, dental plaster, vaseline or 

 other grease, soap, and cheesecloth are 

 necessary. 



Collections in ethno-botany are readily 

 carried on in connection with other field 

 work. For this purpose one may take 30 

 driers, with newspapers for inner sheets. 

 The driers may be strapped to a board 

 or between two boards of suitable dimen- 

 sions; in camp, stones or other heavy ob- 

 jects placed on the package furnish the 

 necessary pressure. 



Consult Holmes and Mason, Instructions 

 to Collectors of Historical and Anthro- 

 pological Specimens, 1902; Hrdlicka, Di- 

 rections for Collecting Information and 

 Specimens for Physical Anthropology, 

 1904; Mason (1) Directions for Collect- 

 ing Basketry, 1902, (2) Ethnological Di- 

 rections Relative to the Indian Tribes of 

 the United States, 1875; Mills, Explora- 

 tions of the Gartner Mound and Village 

 Site, 1904; Niblack, Instructions for tak- 

 ing Paper Molds of Inscriptions in Stone, 

 Wood, Bronze, etc., 1883; Notes and 

 Queries on Anthropology, 1899; Peabody 

 and Moorehead, Explorations of Jacobs 

 Cavern, 1904; Putnam, On Methods of 

 Archaeological Research in America, 1886; 

 Thomas (1) Directions for Mound Ex- 

 plorations, 1884, (2) Mound Explora- 

 tions, 1894; Willoughby, Prehistoric Bur- 

 ial Places in Maine, 1898. See Preserva- 

 tion of Collections. (w. h.) 



Coloc. Apparently two Chumashan vil- 

 lages, one formerly near the Rincon or at 

 Ortegas, near Santa Barbara, Cal., the 

 other near Santa Inez mission. 

 Coloc— Cabrillo (154'2) in Smith, Colec. Doc. Fla., 

 181, 1S57. Kolok,— Taylor in Cal. Farmer, May 4, 

 1860. 



Colomino. (1) A town placed by Jef- 

 ferys (French Dom. Am., pt. i, map, 134, 

 1761) on one of the head streams of Oc- 

 mulgee r., Ga. (2) A town on the w. 

 bank of upper Altamaha or St George 

 r., Ga. (Giissefeld, Map of U. S., 1784). 

 Both places were within Muskhogean ter- 

 ritory. 



Color. See Anntomy. 



Coloradas. A Tepehuane (?) village, 

 apparently situated s. e. of Morelos, in 

 the Sierra Madre, s. w. Chihuahua, Mex- 

 ico. — Lumholtz, Unknown Mexico, i, 439, 

 1902. 



