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The Ethno-geography of the Porno and 

 Neighboring Indians, by S. A. Barrett. Vol. 

 6, Number 1.' Dr. Barrett's method in this, 

 the largest of his three papers, includes the 

 determination of certain dialectic areas in the 

 Porno territory, with sections of similar prov- 

 inces among the Wintun, Tuki and Moque- 

 lumnan peoples. This is accomplished by 

 means of vocabularies, together with compari- 

 son of the different phonetic systems. Of the 

 seventeen areas isolated by Dr. Barrett in the 

 paper, seven are Pomo, five Tuki, two Wintun 

 and three Moquelumnan. A large map ac- 

 companying this treatise outlines the dialectic 

 provinces established and makes clear their 

 geographical relations to each other. In addi- 

 tion, the author has entered on his map 500 of 

 the aboriginal village and camp sites of the 

 Pomo, and some of the more important vil- 

 lages of the neighboring stocks. The work as 

 a whole comprises, besides the maps, compara- 

 tive vocabularies of 282 words in sixteen 

 Pomo, Yuki, Wintun and Moquelumnan dia- 

 lects, an extended introduction, discussion of 

 phonetic and linguistic relationships, descrip- 

 tions of village sites, and a fuU glossary of 

 native words which enter into geographical 

 names. 



Pomo Indian Basketry. Vol. 7, Number 3. 

 In this companion volume the author takes up 

 with some minuteness the subject of the 

 baskets and basket designs of the same people. 

 The paper treats exhaustively of forms, tech- 

 nique, ornamentation and the native nomen- 

 clature of the designs. This people is par- 

 ticularly facile in handling decorative ele- 

 ments and surpassingly excellent in technique. 

 Dr. Barrett's paper covers both aspects of his 

 subject at length, in discussion as well as by 

 photographic and diagrammatic illustrations. 

 The work includes 231 text figures and 30 

 plates, together with a full glossary of native 

 basketry terms. Like his former paper, it ia 

 more full and minute in outline than anything 

 of similar nature which has been elsewhere 

 attempted for California territory. 



^ Cite as : Univ. of Calif. Publ. in Amer. Arch, 

 and Ethn. 



Geography and Dialects of the Miwoh. Vol. 

 6, Number 2. This paper is somewhat similar 

 in outline to the " Ethno-geography," but is 

 less comprehensive in scope. Like the former 

 paper, it includes brief comparative vocabu- 

 laries and a map indicating the results de- 

 termined. Some of the vexed issues of the 

 paper are taken up in a following number by 

 Dr. Kroeber: 



On the Evidence of the Occupation of Cer- 

 tain Regions hy the Miwok Indians. Vol. 6, 

 Number 3. The subject is an interesting one, 

 in that the people concerned were in former 

 times very important numerically, but were 

 among the first to suffer at the advent of the 

 whites. Since then the western units of the 

 stock have so far disappeared that information 

 is extremely scanty. This article, therefore, 

 while necessarily brief, is most important and 

 fills a place in the series which would other- 

 wise tend to be much neglected from lack of 

 proper material. 



A Mission Record of the California Indians, 

 by A. L. Kroeber. Vol. 8, Number 1. An 

 entirely new departure is signalized by this 

 paper from Dr. Kroeber. The material which 

 he presents with editorial comments is drawn 

 from authentic documents of the Mexican gov- 

 ernment written in Spanish, copies of which 

 are in the possession of the Bancroft Library 

 of the University of California. Material of 

 such nature has double or triple interest in 

 that it concerns the peoples who have been 

 under the direct influence of the missions, and 

 have therefore experienced violent modifica- 

 tion of their original native customs and con- 

 ditions. It antedates, moreover, in most in- 

 stances, such systematized comments as are 

 elsewhere extant concerning native American 

 life. The original manuscript in the present 

 instance is a " contestacion " or codified an- 

 swer to a list of queries sent to the missions 

 by the Mexican vice-regal government, and 

 contains much that is in the first degree inter- 

 esting and suggestive. The record as pub- 

 lished includes only those parts of the original 

 which are of direct ethnological interest. The 

 significance of the study can be somewhat real- 

 ized when it is learned that it embodies shorter 



